You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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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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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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