Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
AL PACINOYou sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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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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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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