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.
AL PACINOIf you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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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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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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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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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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