You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
AL PACINOThere is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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