My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
AL PACINOReally, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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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 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.
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Either I act or I die.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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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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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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