“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
AL PACINOI’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Either I act or I die.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I 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.”
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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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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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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