It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
AL PACINOThe only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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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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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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