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

Vanity is my favourite sin..

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….

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 ….

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

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 ….

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..

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….

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….

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..

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

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….

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..

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..

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 ….

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

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's not personal, it's strictly business.

I don't like what's going on in Iraq, naturally. I'm part of a large majority of people who don't, but I do not know the whole story. I do not believ….

I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a ma….

Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, even….