The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
AL PACINOThat’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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 was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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 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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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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