Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
AL PACINOI had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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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 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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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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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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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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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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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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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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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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 destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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