I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
AL PACINOEither we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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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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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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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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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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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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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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