The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
AL PACINOSo I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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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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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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It 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.
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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.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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