Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
AL PACINOIt had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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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.
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[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.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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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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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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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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