It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
AL PACINOWhen you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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