110+ Al Pacino Quotes On Friends, Dynamic And Iconic

Al Pacino is an American actor who has had a long and successful career in film and theater. He is best known for his roles in The Godfather trilogy, Scarface, and Dog Day Afternoon. He has won an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Al Pacino on life, love, friends.

Top 10 Al Pacino Quotes

1. It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
2. I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
3. 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.
4. If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
5. Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.
6. 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.
7. Without coffee something’s missing
8. On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?
9. I asked god for a bike, but god doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
10. The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.

Al Pacino Image Quotes

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. — Al Pacino

Al Pacino Short Quotes

• I believe in one day at a time; you've got TODAY, that's what you' ve got.
• The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
• I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
• Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
• I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
• Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
• The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.
• Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.
• If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
• If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.

Al Pacino Quotes About Life

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

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

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers. — Al Pacino

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid. — Al Pacino

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

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life. — Al Pacino

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

Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember. — Al Pacino

My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted. — Al Pacino

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

Al Pacino Quotes About Love

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

Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate — Al Pacino

I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters. — Al Pacino

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

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

Love goes through different stages. But it endures. — Al Pacino

Al Pacino Quotes About Asked

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. — Al Pacino

People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy. — Al Pacino

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. — Al Pacino

Pretty soon I'll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure. The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom. — Al Pacino

An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying. — Al Pacino

Al Pacino Quotes About Acting

The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back. — Al Pacino

I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a play. In film, there's always a certain sense of control, of holding back. The stage is different ; there's more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through. — Al Pacino

I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft. — Al Pacino

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured. — Al Pacino

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting. — Al Pacino

I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it. — Al Pacino

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

A lot of acting is private time. — Al Pacino

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

[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors. — Al Pacino

Al Pacino Quotes About Personal

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

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. — Al Pacino

I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions. — Al Pacino

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. — Al Pacino

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

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

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life. — Al Pacino

It's not personal, it's strictly business — Al Pacino

I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can't believe I did that, it's like another person. It's the thought of it, it's just appalling to me. — Al Pacino

I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way, the play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There's no doubt in my mind about it. — Al Pacino

Al Pacino Famous Quotes And Sayings

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. — Al Pacino

"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written. — Al Pacino

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

I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused. — Al Pacino

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

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

I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing. — Al Pacino

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

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

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

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. — Al Pacino

The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. And I didn't think about the material as much. But sometimes I've thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn't work out. — Al Pacino

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. — Al Pacino

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

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high. — Al Pacino

I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it. — Al Pacino

I haven't encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way. I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it's a good idea to know that. It's always good to go with your gift. — Al Pacino

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument. — Al Pacino

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

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing. — Al Pacino

I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road. — Al Pacino

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing. — Al Pacino

I'm always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain't bad. You can meet people on it. — Al Pacino

Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry. — Al Pacino

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

It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like. — Al Pacino

[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that's why I guess it's semi-autobiographical. — Al Pacino

The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie. — Al Pacino

I never saw myself as a director. It's certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot. — Al Pacino

The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks. — Al Pacino

Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do. — Al Pacino

My movies are always being played on television, I'm very well known and all that stuff - I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it's wonderful. But now I'm at a point where...I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time. — Al Pacino

Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they're not used to? Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things. — Al Pacino

I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me. — Al Pacino

Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way. — Al Pacino

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

I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don't know how long she'll run away from it, but it's there in her. — Al Pacino

[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large. — Al Pacino

I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script. — Al Pacino

I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me. 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

One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx. — Al Pacino

It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them. — Al Pacino

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. — Al Pacino

The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality. — Al Pacino

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. — Al Pacino

Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous. — Al Pacino

When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it. It's a kind of rite of passage, socially. — Al Pacino

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

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

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

If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I'm in it, whatever that means, I'm expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that. — Al Pacino

I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out. — Al Pacino

We're charlatans in a way, we're magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style, I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they'll pay attention long enough to consume it. — Al Pacino

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets. — Al Pacino

Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore. — Al Pacino

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

I don't like what's going on in Iraq, naturally. I'm part of a large majority of people who don't, but I do not know the whole story. I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it's hard for me to discern. I don't like what it's doing to the world. — Al Pacino

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

Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10 years ago, I don't want to play now. — Al Pacino

There is no happiness. There is only concentration. — Al Pacino

Many years ago, in the late '70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me. — Al Pacino

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

You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of 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

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

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. — Al Pacino

I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that. — Al Pacino

I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn't want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways. — Al Pacino

Life Lessons by Al Pacino

1. Al Pacino has taught us to never give up on our dreams and to never stop striving for success. He has shown us that hard work and dedication can pay off, even if it takes time.
2. He has also taught us to be humble and to take criticism in stride, as he has always been open to learning and growing from his mistakes.
3. Lastly, Pacino has taught us to be passionate and to stay true to ourselves, no matter what the world may think.