[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
AL PACINOGrease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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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 do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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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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