I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
AL PACINOYou’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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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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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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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.
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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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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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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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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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