The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
AL PACINOIt was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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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.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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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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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.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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