We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
AL PACINOI just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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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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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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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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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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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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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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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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