I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

[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.

There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

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.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

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.