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.

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 theatre 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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?

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

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?

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.

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."

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

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.

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

"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.

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.

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.

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.