Inspirational Al Pacino Quotes And Sayings
“My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something. I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.”-Al Pacino
“The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. 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.”-Al Pacino
“My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.”-Al Pacino
“Vanity is my favorite sin.”-Al Pacino
“The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.”-Al Pacino
“There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.”-Al Pacino
“You do get very tired sometimes when you’re sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted.”-Al Pacino
“The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.”-Al Pacino
20 Best Al Pacino Quotes And Sayings
“I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.”-Al Pacino
“I’ve often said there are two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.”-Al Pacino
“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.”-Al Pacino
“I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.”-Al Pacino
“Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.”-Al Pacino
“I used to wear disguises, like hats and false beards, just to walk around and avoid attention.”-Al Pacino
“It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.”-Al Pacino
Famous Al Pacino Quotes About Hollywood
“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
“All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.”-Al Pacino
“It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it. I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.”-Al Pacino
“Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.”-Al Pacino
“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.”-Al Pacino
“I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like?”-Al Pacino
“Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.”-Al Pacino
Top 10 Al Pacino Quotes About Film
“Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it’s not until the last two or three performances when I even understand certain things. In the old days, star actors would travel the world doing the same parts over and over again.”-Al Pacino
“My grandmother always came to my shows. She was always concerned about the way I dressed – even later on when I was well known and I supported her.”-Al Pacino
“It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.”-Al Pacino
“When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.”-Al Pacino
“At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.”-Al Pacino
