I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
AL PACINOThe truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
More Al Pacino Quotes
-
-
I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
AL PACINO -
There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
AL PACINO -
Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
AL PACINO -
The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
AL PACINO -
All I am is what I’m going after.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
AL PACINO -
The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
AL PACINO -
Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
AL PACINO -
Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
AL PACINO -
It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
AL PACINO