I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
AL PACINOI didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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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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