I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
AL PACINOA kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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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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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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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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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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