There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
AL PACINOIt’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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After 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.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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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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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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