It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
AL PACINOIt used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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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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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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