I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
AL PACINOShakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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