“And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.”

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.

I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

A lot of acting is private time.

It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.

Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.

The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.

I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.

It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.

To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.

If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.

Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.

So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.

[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.

I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it’s yours forever. If it doesn’t, then it was never yours to begin with.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine.

I’m an actor – it’s not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won’t ask for their money back.

The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.

I’m back – now watch this!’ It all boils down to the music. The mask is a slight theme for people to enjoy, and it adds mystery.

I liked being able to speak to somebody and throw it back and forth, and they can’t predict what you’re going to say next.

Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.

Some songs, you just can’t shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.