I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
AL PACINOSometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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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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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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