I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
AL PACINOMy weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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 destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Great 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.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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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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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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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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