Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
AL PACINOI turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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Their 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.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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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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