Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
AL PACINOI 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.”
More Al Pacino Quotes
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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