Al Pacino Quotes

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

Fool, Heart, Hard

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

Same, Wish, Maybe

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

South, Bronx, Bodyguards

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

Mean, Try, Learned

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

Shy, Wear, Sunglasses

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

Great, Expect, Audience

Vanity is my favourite sin.
Al Pacino

Vanity, Sin, Favourite

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

America, Everybody, Full

I spent lunchtime in a grave during the filming of 'Bloody Mama.' When you're younger, you feel that's what you need to do to help you stay in character. When you get older, you become more confident and less intense about it - and you can achieve the same effect.
Al Pacino

Character, Help, Same

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

Before, Problem, Sense

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

Life, Money, Makes

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

Live, Stars, Actor

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

Mind, Show, Few

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

Life, Good, Truth

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

Respect, Trying, Stars

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

Children, Humble, Career

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

Tell, Comedy, Started

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

Humanity, Often, Film

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

Life, Work, Help

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

Career, Remember, Gone

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

Woman, Learn, Fact

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

Two, Said, Often

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

Woman, Feeling, Winning

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

Character, Hard, Find

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

Time, Morning, Movies

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Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: April 25, 1940

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