That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
AL PACINOI’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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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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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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 understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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