I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
AL PACINOEither I act or I die.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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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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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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