My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
AL PACINOTheir 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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