Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
AL PACINOI’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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 don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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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.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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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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