When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.

It's not personal, it's strictly business

The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

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