I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
AL PACINOYou want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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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.
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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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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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