They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
AL PACINOLee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
More Al Pacino Quotes
-
-
I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
AL PACINO -
What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
AL PACINO -
A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
AL PACINO -
Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
AL PACINO -
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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 -
The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
AL PACINO -
Vanity: my favorite sin.
AL PACINO -
When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
AL PACINO -
Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
AL PACINO -
They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
AL PACINO -
Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
AL PACINO -
It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
AL PACINO