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.
AL PACINOI used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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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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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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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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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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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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