I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
AL PACINOThere is no happiness. There is only concentration.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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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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