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 do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

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.

Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we're not going to talk about that.

I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.