If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
AL PACINOI had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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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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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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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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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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