I think most people are very, very much motivated by sex - greed, sex, and hunger.
My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom - it was almost overwhelming.
When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
Vanity is my favourite sin.
It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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.
I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp. . . Then I'd find another one.
I had been playing with matches and burned a small rug. I was in the process of covering up my crime when suddenly God saw me. I felt His gaze inside my head and on my hands. . . . I flew into a rage against so crude an indiscretion, I blasphemed. . . . He never looked at me again. . . . I had the more difficulty getting rid of Him the Holy Ghost in that He had installed Himself at the back of my head. . . . I collared the Holy Ghost in the cellar and threw Him out.
I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
The [Nazi party] should not become a constable of public opinion, but must dominate it. It must not become a servant of the masses, but their master!
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.