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.
AL PACINOI was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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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 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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