I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
AL PACINOI don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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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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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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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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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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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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