I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
AL PACINOI’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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 believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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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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’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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