They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
AL PACINOAnd then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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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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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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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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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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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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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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