Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
AL PACINOThe thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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