Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
AL PACINO“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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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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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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Without coffee something’s missing
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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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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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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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.
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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.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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