When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.

If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.

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

I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.

A lot of acting is private time.

[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.