Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
AL PACINOI understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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 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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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying 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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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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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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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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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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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