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.
AL PACINOI had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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