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… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that… — 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
If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I'm in it, whatever… — 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
If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
We're charlatans in a way, we're magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq, you're going to… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work… — 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 wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is. — 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 Image
The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
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 Image
I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image