I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
AL PACINOWhen you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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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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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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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