My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
AL PACINOIt 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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