You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
AL PACINOI hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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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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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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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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