My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
AL PACINOThe hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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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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[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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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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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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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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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 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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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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