The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
AL PACINOsometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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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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