Al Pacino Quotes

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.

Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.

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

Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

Without coffee something’s missing

You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.

Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.

Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.

Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.

All I am is what I'm going after.

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

I believe in one day at a time; you've got TODAY, that's what you' ve got.

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know

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

A lot of acting is private time.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

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

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

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.

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.

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.

The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.

I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse

You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.

Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.

A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.

Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.

There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness."

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

It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

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

Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.

The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.

Either I act or I die.