I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
AL PACINOI thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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 my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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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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 don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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