Al Pacino Quotes

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.

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

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

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

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

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

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.

It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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