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.
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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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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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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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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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.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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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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