Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate

[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.

An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.

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.

You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.