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.
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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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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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.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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 haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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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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