Al Pacino Actors Quotations

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.

Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.

If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.

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.

When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I'd go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.

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.

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.

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.

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.

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.