The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
AL PACINOIt’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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You 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.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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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’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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