There Are A Lot Of Roles In

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 Take Objection To It, Because That's The Way It Goes. They Can Be Wrong, They Can Be Right. They Can Be Cruel, They Can Be Kind.

A Lot Of Actors Choose Parts By The Scripts, But I Don't Trust Reading The Scripts That Much. I Try To Get Some Friends Together And Read A Script Aloud. Sometimes I Read Scripts And Record Them And Play Them Back To See If There's A Movie. It's Very Evocative; It's Like A First Cut Because You Hear 'she Walked To The Door,' And You Visualize All These Things. 'she Opens The Door' . . . Because You Read The Stage Directions, Too.

There Are A Couple Of Times I Would've Liked To Have Married. I Think I Made A Mistake, Especially Once.

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.

I Am More Alive In The Theater Than Anywhere Else, But What I Take Into The Theater I Get From The Streets.