I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
AL PACINOYou never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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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 is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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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 would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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