I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
AL PACINOIf I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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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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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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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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