You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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I 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.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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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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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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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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