To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
AL PACINOI always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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