I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
AL PACINOI believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Either I act or I die.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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.
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