Al Pacino Quotes

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

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

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

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.

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

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.

Vanity: my favorite sin.

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

They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

If you get all tangled up, just tango on.

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

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

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

All I am is what I'm going after.

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

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

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.

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.

Without coffee something’s missing

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

On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

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

Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

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

My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

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

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

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

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."

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

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.

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.