When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
AL PACINOBrian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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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.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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