After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
AL PACINOThe play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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