It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
AL PACINOIt would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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Early 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.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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