My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
AL PACINOAfter looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
More Al Pacino Quotes
-
-
Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
AL PACINO -
I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
AL PACINO -
I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
AL PACINO -
My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
AL PACINO -
The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
AL PACINO -
Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
AL PACINO -
I 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.
AL PACINO -
I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
AL PACINO -
Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
AL PACINO -
It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
AL PACINO -
I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
AL PACINO -
My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
AL PACINO -
“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
AL PACINO