Al Pacino Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like?”

“I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.”

“You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.”

“I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.”

“In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.”

“When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?”

“There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.”

“I don't ever give my opinion. Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.”

“Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.”

“I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.”