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

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.

[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.

It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.

"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.