When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don't know how long she'll run away from it, but it's there in her.