I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
AL PACINOFailure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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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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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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The 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.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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