There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
AL PACINOI’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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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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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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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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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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