You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
AL PACINOI’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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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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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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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’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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