Al Pacino Quotes

Al Pacino Quotes About Love

1. “Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.” —Al Pacino
2. “Love goes through different stages. But it endures.” —Al Pacino
3. “Dear Di [Diane Keaton], I am feeling uncomfertably lonely more than I have many, many moons. I don’t know wht this is so... But mainly it’s being away from you and what we have together.” —Al Pacino
4. “Just trying to tell you i miss you, 'darlin.' In a sort of roundabout way it seems.I will get back to you. Love, Al.” —Al Pacino
5. “Love is overrated. “Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate” — Al Pacino
6. “I've had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people – you could almost call them marriages, even though I didn't marry. But it was costly.” —Al Pacino
7. “Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don’t ever take sides against the family.” —Al Pacino
8. “When they come... they come at what you love.” —Al Pacino

 

Al Pacino Quotes on Woman

1. “I like women who can cook. That's first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first – you want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.” —Al Pacino
2. “Women! What can you say? Who made 'em? God must have been a fuckin' genius. The hair... They say the hair is everything, you know. Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls... just wanted to go to sleep forever? Or lips... and when they touched, yours were like... that first swallow of wine... after you just crossed the desert.” —Al Pacino
3. “It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.” —Al Pacino
4. “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.”” — Al Pacino
5. “Okay, here’s the story. I come from the gutter. I know that. I got no education, but that's okay. I know the street, and I'm making all the right connections. With the right woman, there's no stopping me. “I could go right to the top.” —Al Pacino
6. “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.” —Al Pacino
7. “I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.” —Al Pacino
8. “Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities. I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.” —Al Pacino

 

Al Pacino Quotes About Success

1. “On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is... can you win or lose like a man?” —Al Pacino
2. “I've won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.” —Al Pacino
3. “Either I act or I die.” —Al Pacino
4. “I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. “It was not easy.” —Al Pacino
5. “Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in roles that have been successful for them. It has to pay for itself.” —Al Pacino
6. “I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.” —Al Pacino
7. “The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.” —Al Pacino
8. “Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.” —Al Pacino
9. “Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.” —Al Pacino

 

Al Pacino Quotes About Life

1. “I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.” —Al Pacino
2. “That's the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.” —Al Pacino
3. “We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.” —Al Pacino
4. “The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. “A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.” —Al Pacino
5. “Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.” —Al Pacino
6. “Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. “Where is the moment?” —Al Pacino
7. “Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.” —Al Pacino
8. “The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.” —Al Pacino
9. “I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; It was a very integrated life.” —Al Pacino
10. “Money makes your life easier. If you’re lucky to have it, you’re lucky.” —Al Pacino

 

Al Pacino Motivational Quotes

1. “If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.” —Al Pacino
2. “The world is yours!” —Al Pacino
3. “I don't need bodyguards. “I’m from the South Bronx.” —Al Pacino
4. “Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.” —Al Pacino
5. “Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.” —Al Pacino
6. “The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.” —Al Pacino
7. “Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.” —Al Pacino
8. “Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.” —Al Pacino
9. “I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ve got.” —Al Pacino
10. “All I am is what I’m going after.” —Al Pacino
11. “If you get all tangled up, just tango on.” —Al Pacino
12. “My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.” —Al Pacino

Al Pacino Inspirational Quotes

1. “The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.” —Al Pacino
2. “It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.” —Al Pacino
3. “I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.” —Al Pacino
4. “They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.” —Al Pacino
5. “You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build your egos the size of the cathedrals; fiber–optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?” —Al Pacino
6. “Vanity: my favorite sin.” —Al Pacino
7. “It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound, but in its so merciful way, blunts the edges ever so slightly.” —Al Pacino
8. “My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.” —Al Pacino
9. “Sometimes it's better to be with the devil you know than the angel you didn't know.” —Al Pacino

 

Meaningful Al Pacino Quotes

1. “Without coffee something’s missing.” —Al Pacino
2. “Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.” —Al Pacino
3. “There is no happiness. There is only concentration.” —Al Pacino
4. “There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away. They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless. I've been a lavatory attendant, a theater usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.” —Al Pacino
5. “Freedom, baby, is never having to say you’re sorry.” —Al Pacino
6. “I don’t regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.” —Al Pacino
7. “I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.” —Al Pacino
8. “My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.” —Al Pacino
9. “The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. “It brings me back to earth.” —Al Pacino
10. “Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.” —Al Pacino
11. “We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.” —Al Pacino
12. “Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse.” —Al Pacino
13. “The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everyone's agreeing with what you're saying – even if you say something totally crazy. “You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.” —Al Pacino
14. “You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.” —Al Pacino
15. “If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.” —Al Pacino
16. “You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.” —Al Pacino
17. “Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat failure, too. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? “A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?” —Al Pacino

 

Al Pacino Quotes About Acting

1. “It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.” —Al Pacino
2. “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.” —Al Pacino
3. “I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.” —Al Pacino
4. “Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.” —Al Pacino
5. “I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.” —Al Pacino
6. “When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.” —Al Pacino
7. “Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'” — Al Pacino
8. “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.” —Al Pacino
9. “I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.” —Al Pacino
10. “The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.” —Al Pacino
11. “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.” —Al Pacino

 

Scarface Al Pacino Quotes

1. “You don't have the guts to be what you wanna be! You need people like me so you can point your fckin' fingers and say, 'That's the bad guy!'” — Al Pacino
2. “All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don’t break them for no one.” —Al Pacino
3. “I’m Tony Montana! You fuck with me, you fuckin’ with the best!” —Al Pacino
4. “Who put this thing together? Me, that's who! Who do I trust? Me!” —Al Pacino
5. “We were doing Scarface many years ago...and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean. I thought, what's going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director, Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.” —Al Pacino
6. “Amigo, the only thing in this world that gives orders is balls. Balls. “You got that?” —Al Pacino
7. “The world is yours, chico, and everything in it. So say goodnight to the bad guy.” —Al Pacino
8. “In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.” —Al Pacino
9. “You worry too much. You’re gonna have a heart attack.” —Al Pacino
10. “Every dog ​​has his day.” —Al Pacino

 

The Godfather Al Pacino Quotes

1. “Never hate your enemies. “It affects your judgment.” —Al Pacino
2. “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” —Al Pacino
3. “Great men are not born great, they grow great.” —Al Pacino
4. “Your enemies always get strong on what you leave behind.” —Al Pacino
5. “Never let anyone know what you are thinking.” —Al Pacino
6. “Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!” —Al Pacino
7. “The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.” —Al Pacino
8. “I want reliable people, people who aren't going to be carried away.” —Al Pacino
9. “You don’t even think to call me Godfather. Instead, you come into my house on the day my daughter is to be married, and you ask me to do murder... for money.” —Al Pacino
10. “Never tell anyone outside the Family what you are thinking again.” —Al Pacino

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