I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
AL PACINOI don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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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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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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