I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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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 do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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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 often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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