I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
AL PACINOTo 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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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 destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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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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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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