Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
AL PACINOIf I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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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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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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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.
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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 didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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