There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
AL PACINOI always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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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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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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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 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’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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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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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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