Discover a collection of 90 iconic quotes by the legendary actor Al Pacino, spanning his iconic roles from “Scarface” to “Scent of a Woman.” Immerse yourself in the power of Pacino’s words as you relive the memorable moments and timeless wisdom from his illustrious career. From inspiring monologues to unforgettable one-liners, this compilation showcases the brilliance and impact of one of Hollywood’s greatest actors
Al Pacino Quotes
An American actor and director, who made his mark in the history of cinema, especially with his acting in The Godfather and Scarface.
Considered one of Hollywood’s leading actors throughout his long film career, Al Pacino was born on April 25, 1940, in East Harlem, New York.
Here we listed famous Al Pacino quotes for you
1- “At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.” – Al Pacino
2- “What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?” – Al Pacino
3- “That’s where humor lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.” – Al Pacino
4- “Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.” – Al Pacino
5- “The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.” – Al Pacino
6- “Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.” – Al Pacino
7- “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
8- “Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.” – Al Pacino
9- “I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.” – Al Pacino
10- “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
11- “I don’t ever give my opinion. Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.” – Al Pacino
12- “There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.” – Al Pacino
13- “Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We’ve been here 100 years. Isn’t Italian-American culture American culture? That’s because we’re so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.” – Al Pacino
14- “Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse” – Al Pacino
15- “My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.” – Al Pacino
16- “A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.” – Al Pacino
17- “I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.” – Al Pacino
18- “I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.” – Al Pacino
19- “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
20- “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
21- “I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like?” – Al Pacino
22- “I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.” – Al Pacino
23- “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
24- “When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies. It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts. It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.” – Al Pacino
25- “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
26- “Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it’s not until the last two or three performances when I even understand certain things. In the old days star actors would travel the world doing the same parts over and over again.” – Al Pacino
27- “You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.” – Al Pacino
28- “Most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.” – Al Pacino
29- “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
30- “The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You’re in a conversation and everybody’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
31- “Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.” – Al Pacino
32- “I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.” – Al Pacino
33- “All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.” – Al Pacino
34- “You’re in business to be successful, not to be loved.” – Al Pacino
35- “Either I act or I die.” – Al Pacino
36- “Never lie to someone who trust you, and never trust someone who lies to you.” – Al Pacino
37- “I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.” – Al Pacino
38- “Put me in a room with the same people who talk shit about me and watch how friendly they become.” – Al Pacino
39- “I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.” – Al Pacino
40- “Don’t let anyone get comfortable disrespecting you.” – Al Pacino
41- “The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.” – Al Pacino
42- “People don’t change. they just reveal who the f*ck they really are.” – Al Pacino
43- “Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.” – Al Pacino
44- “Never let someone who has done nothing tell you how to do anything.” – Al Pacino
45- “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
46- “Learn to sit back and observe, not everything needs a reaction.” – Al Pacino
47- “Vanity is my favourite sin.” – Al Pacino
48- “They say i changed a lot, i say a lot changed me.” – Al Pacino
49- “Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.” – Al Pacino
50- “Learn to sit back and observe, not everything needs a reaction.” – Al Pacino
51- “The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.” – Al Pacino
52- “Everybody loves you until you become competition.” – Al Pacino
53- “Freedom, baby, is never having to say you are sorry.” – Al Pacino
54- “People run in packs because they don’t feel safe alone. I run alone because I don’t feel safe in packs.” – Al Pacino
55- “I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.” – Al Pacino
56- “Never tell your problems to everyone. 80% don’t care and the other 20% are glad you have them.” – Al Pacino
57- “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
58- “People bring up your past. when they.re intimidated by your present.” – Al Pacino
59- “[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
60- “Train your mind to be calm in every situation.” – Al Pacino
61- “It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.” – Al Pacino
62- The dream don’t come on closer by itself. we gotta run after it now.” – Al Pacino
63- “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
64- “if anything in life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.” – Al Pacino
65- “When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.” – Al Pacino
66- “Everyone is your friend until you ask them for a favor.” – Al Pacino
67- “Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.” – Al Pacino
68- “As i grow older, i pay less attention to what people say. i just watch what they do.” – Al Pacino
69- “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
70- “Some times those who are heartless, once cared too much.” – Al Pacino
71- “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
72- “All I have in the world is my balls and my words, and I don’t break ‘EM for no one.” – Al Pacino
73- “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
74- “I respect those that tell me the truth, no matter how hard it is.” – Al Pacino
75- “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
76- “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
77- “All I am is what I’m going after.” – Al Pacino
78- “Never let anyone know what you are thinking.” – Al Pacino
79- “The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.” – Al Pacino
80- “Maturity is when you realize that new year won’t change your life.” – Al Pacino
81- “It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.” – Al Pacino
82- “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
83- “I asked god for a bike, but I know god doesn’t work that way. so I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.” – Al Pacino
84- “Never hate your enemies. it affects your judgement.” – Al Pacino
85- “You’re only as good as chances you take.” – Al Pacino
86- “Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you.” – Al Pacino
87- “Forget the career, do the work. if you feel what you are doing in on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and stay with it, eventually things will happen.” – Al Pacino
88- “I always tell the truth. even when i lie.” – Al Pacino
89- “Vanity is my favorite sin. ” – Al Pacino
90- “One week they love me. next week they hate me. both weeks i got paid.” – Al Pacino
