Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
AL PACINOWe start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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