It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
AL PACINOI didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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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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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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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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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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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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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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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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 believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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