I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
AL PACINOI don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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