I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
AL PACINOThe literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
More Al Pacino Quotes
-
-
It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
AL PACINO -
Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
AL PACINO -
I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
AL PACINO -
You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
AL PACINO -
I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
AL PACINO -
I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
AL PACINO -
Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
AL PACINO -
A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
AL PACINO -
Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
AL PACINO -
Either I act or I die.
AL PACINO -
I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
AL PACINO -
We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
AL PACINO -
Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
AL PACINO -
Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
AL PACINO -
I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
AL PACINO