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.
AL PACINOYou’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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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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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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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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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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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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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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