The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
AL PACINOThat’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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