Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
AL PACINOI don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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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.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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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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Grease 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?
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