Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?.

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to ….

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..

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.….

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….

Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can't help himself. You're talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, "He's puttin' that in his cas….

[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..

A lot of acting is private time..

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….

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..

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things..

Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy..

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting ….

I'm always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain't bad. You can meet people on it..

You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is..

[Ocean's Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next ….

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment..

I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can't believe I did that, it's like another person. It's the thought ….

The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you'r….

There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once..

It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't tak….