Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
AL PACINOI don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
More Al Pacino Quotes
-
-
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
AL PACINO -
They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
AL PACINO -
I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
AL PACINO -
It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
AL PACINO -
I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
AL PACINO -
I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
AL PACINO -
You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
AL PACINO -
All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
AL PACINO -
Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
AL PACINO