I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
AL PACINOYou could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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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’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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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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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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