Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
AL PACINOI think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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