If you get all tangled up, just tango on..

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the sam….

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….

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. I don't see my Oscar much no….

Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene..

[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that's why I g….

Vanity is my favourite sin..

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like..

I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me. I was quite overtaken ….

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. I would c….

I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the the….

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..

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx..

Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other..

There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These ….

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore..

I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road..

I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of wha….

I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name." I ju….

We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out in….

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 ….