I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
AL PACINOEarly 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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It 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.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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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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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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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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It’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.
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