When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
AL PACINOThere are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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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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Without coffee something’s missing
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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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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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