I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
AL PACINOI’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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