I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
AL PACINOI didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
More Al Pacino Quotes
-
-
There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
AL PACINO -
I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
AL PACINO -
A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
AL PACINO -
I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
AL PACINO -
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
AL PACINO -
When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
AL PACINO -
My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
AL PACINO -
I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
AL PACINO -
I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
AL PACINO -
The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
AL PACINO -
When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
AL PACINO






