Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
AL PACINOWe live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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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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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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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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.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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