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.
AL PACINOI don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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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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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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