My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
AL PACINOSo that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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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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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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