[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
AL PACINOThe camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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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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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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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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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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