Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.

All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.

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

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.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.