I Probably Write A Poem

All I Am Is What I'm Going After.

A Lot Of Actors Choose Parts By The Scripts, But I Don't Trust Reading The Scripts That Much. I Try To Get Some Friends Together And Read A Script Aloud. Sometimes I Read Scripts And Record Them And Play Them Back To See If There's A Movie. It's Very Evocative; It's Like A First Cut Because You Hear 'she Walked To The Door,' And You Visualize All These Things. 'she Opens The Door' . . . Because You Read The Stage Directions, Too.

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.

I've Often Said There's Two Kinds Of Actors. There's A More Gregarious Type And The Shy Type.

Playing A Character Is An Illusion, And I Feel That When You Know Too Much About A Person, Possibly Part Of That Illusion Is Disrupted.