It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don't know how long she'll… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
My mom was a great influence on my life. A real encourager in terms of acting because she was an avid reader… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that.… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk?… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat… — Al Pacino Copy Share
The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall. — Al Pacino Copy Share
I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn't want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot… — Al Pacino Copy Share
I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament. — Al Pacino Copy Share
When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and… — Al Pacino Copy Share
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high. — Al Pacino Copy Share
My first language was shy. Its only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness. — Al Pacino Copy Share
When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it. It's a… — Al Pacino Copy Share
I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools. — Al Pacino Copy Share
![“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.” quote by Al Pacino](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/792/al-pacino-1656_acting_i-can-see-talent-or-curiosity-for-acting_2146160.jpg)
![“The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.” quote by Al Pacino](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/62d/al-pacino-1656_acting_the-physical-stamina-in-revolution-i-was_2503538.jpg)
