It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
AL PACINOTake a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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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’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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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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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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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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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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