I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
Al PacinoThe play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
Al PacinoI donโt understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbiansโฆ itโs a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, itโs not who you loveโฆ a man, a woman, what have youโฆ itโs the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
Al PacinoResponsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.
Al PacinoYou sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; 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?
Al Pacino