I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
AL PACINOGreat directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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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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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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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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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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