I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
AL PACINOThe only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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.
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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 children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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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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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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