Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
AL PACINOI’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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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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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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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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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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