Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
AL PACINOWhat’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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Either I act or I die.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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