I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
AL PACINOMy children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
More Al Pacino Quotes
-
-
Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
AL PACINO -
Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
AL PACINO -
Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
AL PACINO -
The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
AL PACINO -
The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
AL PACINO -
I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
AL PACINO -
If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
AL PACINO -
I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
AL PACINO -
I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
AL PACINO -
The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
AL PACINO -
You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
AL PACINO