black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,

Al Pacino

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.”
AL PACINO

Ask Change Daughter Name Oldest Once School Thought
When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
AL PACINO

Interweavemoscar Journey Sort Story Take Thing Wide
The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
AL PACINO

Actor Between Buy Difference Early Morning Order Painter Somebody Spend Time Waiting Watch
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.
AL PACINO

Away Curiosity Daughter Know Long Oldest Run
I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
AL PACINO

Concern Demand Different Go Movie Play
When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
AL PACINO

Great Happen Play Read Some Something Talk Writer
You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
AL PACINO

Almost Costly Even Marriage Marry Though
When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
AL PACINO

Audience Back Come Extraordinary Thing Giving Perform You
My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
AL PACINO

Advice Careful Kid Mantra Person Want
When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
AL PACINO

Act Back Camera Give Keep never Talk When
If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
AL PACINO

Empathize Identify People Therefore Thing Understand
I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
AL PACINO

Controversy Feel Go Person Provoke Risk Something Take Wherever
Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
AL PACINO

Actor Big Healthy Learn Repeat Thin Think Trade
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
AL PACINO

Alive Come Director Great Pace Scene Stag Understand Way
The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
AL PACINO

Act Ever First Forty Physical Shock Terrible Think Thnk Young
I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
AL PACINO

Certainly Director Editor Fourty Language Make Movie Myself Pick Second Stuff Write Year

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Al Pacino Quotes