In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
AL PACINOForget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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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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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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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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 go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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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