I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
AL PACINOSometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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 like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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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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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’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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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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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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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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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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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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