You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
AL PACINOI am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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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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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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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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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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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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