I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
AL PACINOI used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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