I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
AL PACINOYou’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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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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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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