The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
AL PACINOPeople are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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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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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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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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