Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
AL PACINOI love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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 am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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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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