I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
AL PACINOI don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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Forget 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.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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