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.
AL PACINOSometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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 don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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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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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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