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.
AL PACINOYou take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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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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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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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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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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