I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
AL PACINOYou’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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