Quotes from Al Pacino

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

The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

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

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 all the notes. It's great therapy.

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.

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

I've had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people - you could almost call them marriages, even though I didn't marry. But it was costly.

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

I used to wear disguises, like hats and false beards, just to walk around and avoid attention.

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy.

Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.

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

My grandmother always came to my shows. She was always concerned about the way I dressed - even later on, when I was well known and I supported her.

I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I did not have the capacity to cope.

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.

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.

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.