It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
AL PACINOWomen have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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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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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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