Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
AL PACINOWe 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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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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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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