When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
AL PACINO[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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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 wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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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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