Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
AL PACINOI would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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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 haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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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 am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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