Alfredo James “Al” Pacino is an American actor and filmmaker. In a career spanning over five decades, he has received several accolades, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, becoming one of the few performers to have received the Triple Crown of Acting. Profoundly inspirational Al Pacino quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.

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Famous Al Pacino Quotes

It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart. Al Pacino

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

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

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

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

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

The World Is Yours. Al Pacino

Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than Scarface. 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 don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience. Al Pacino

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

Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too. Al Pacino

Vanity is my favourite sin. Al Pacino

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

If you get all tangled up, just tango on. Al Pacino

You do get very tired sometimes, when you’re sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted. Al Pacino

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

That’s where humour 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

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

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

It’s easy to fool the eye, but it’s hard to fool the heart. Al Pacino

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

Whenever I get feel an urge to exercise, I lie down and take a nap. Al Pacino

I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type. Al Pacino

Without coffee something’s missing. Al Pacino

Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions. And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie. Al Pacino

It’s not personal, it’s strictly business. 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

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

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

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

Money makes your life easier. If you’re lucky to have it, you’re lucky. Al Pacino

If you get all tangled up, just tango on. Al Pacino

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

Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow. Al Pacino

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

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

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

I don’t ever give my opinion. Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life. Al Pacino

It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart. Al Pacino

I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I did not have the capacity to cope. 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

I’ve never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding. Al Pacino

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

I used to wear disguises, like hats and false beards, just to walk around and avoid attention. Al Pacino

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

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

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

Either I act or I die. Al Pacino

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s. 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

Vanity is my favourite sin. Al Pacino

Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment. Al Pacino

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

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

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

I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx. Al Pacino

I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.  Al Pacino

Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than Scarface. Al Pacino

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

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

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

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

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

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

You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers. Al Pacino

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

When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience? Al Pacino

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

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

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

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

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

In America 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

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

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

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

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

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

My grandmother always came to my shows. She was always concerned about the way I dressed even later on, when I was well known and I supported her. Al Pacino

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

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

It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ’t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind. Al Pacino

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

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

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