“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
AL PACINOActually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
-
-
I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
AL PACINO -
I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
AL PACINO -
My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
AL PACINO -
[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
AL PACINO -
I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
AL PACINO -
The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
AL PACINO -
I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
AL PACINO -
Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
AL PACINO -
It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
AL PACINO -
Either I act or I die.
AL PACINO -
I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
AL PACINO -
If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
AL PACINO -
On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
AL PACINO