All I Am Is What I'm Going

When My Mother Got Home From Work, She Would Take Me To The Movies. It Was Her Way Of Getting Out, And She Would Take Me With Her. I'd Go Home And Act All The Parts. It Had A Tremendous Influence On My Becoming An Actor.

Women Have Always Had Equal Importance Onstage, And Working With Them Must Have Altered My Sensibilities. I've Never Felt Sensitive To The Whole Issue, Because Being Macho Has Never Been A Problem With Me.

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 Just Wondered How It Would Feel, How People Would Treat Her, But She's Adjusted So Marvelously.

To Be Really Obvious About Something, If Somebody Straps An M1 On Your Shoulder And Throws You In Iraq, You're Going To Get A Sense Of What The Hell's Going On There. Boy, You'll Wake Up Fast When Bullets Are Flying Over Your Head.

It's So Funny When People Who Are Not Used To Making Movies Get Into It. You Just Can't Believe How Insufferably Boring It Is. Waiting Around And Doing These Lines Over And Over And Finally Having To Go In And Loop The Lines And Dub Them.