[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
AL PACINOThere has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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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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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Either I act or I die.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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