I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
AL PACINOMy own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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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 understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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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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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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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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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.
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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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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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