Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
AL PACINOPretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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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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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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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