Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
AL PACINOI always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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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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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’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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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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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 like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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