There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
AL PACINOThe difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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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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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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