Top 100 Pacino Quotes
#1. I actually love auditioning because I usually don't get the part. I've tested with Daniel Day-Lewis, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Tom Cruise. So I've gotten to that point, and I understand when I don't get it. There are a lot of very talented people out there.
Deborah Kara Unger
#2. I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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#3. The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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#4. When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.
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#5. Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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#6. If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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#7. God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.
Jason Isaacs
#8. There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I've had close relationships with.
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#9. My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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#10. The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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.
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#13. I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp ... Then I'd find another one.
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#14. The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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#15. One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea Gull," when was 14 in the Bronx.
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#16. I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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#17. You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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#18. What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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#19. I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.
Richard Schiff
#21. Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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#22. If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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#23. It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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#24. 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.
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#25. The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.
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#26. I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Dane DeHaan
#27. 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.
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#28. It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
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#29. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. I don't believe in God, I only believe in Al Pacino, and that's the truth.
Javier Bardem
#33. I look up to actors. I look up to Robert DeNiro, I look up to Johnny Depp, I look up to Al Pacino, I look up to run-of-the-mill really good actors. I love watching movies, and I love watching other actors and learning from them.
Edward Furlong
#34. Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.
Jason Patric
#35. I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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#36. I like 'The Usual Suspects'. Great film. I also like 'Scarface', films like that. Lots of gangster films. I really like watching all kinds of films, dramas, romance. I'll watch comedies. I like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Denzel Washington, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle. I'd like to meet them.
Barkhad Abdi
#37. Shakespeare is one of the reasons I've stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words ... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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#38. 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."
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#39. My favorite older movie of all-time is "Scarface." Al Pacino played that role so well. It's a longer movie, but I like it.
Virgil Green
#40. 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.
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#41. 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.
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#42. Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.
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#43. Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.
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#44. 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.
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#45. I' ve won awards. And they didn't make me feel bad winning them. They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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#46. I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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#47. 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.
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#48. Sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know
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#49. I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.
Oscar Isaac
#50. 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.
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#51. Voices are a good way to get in and out of things. James Carville constantly calls my wife to say I'll be home late. Mandy Patinkin and Al Pacino call to get me restaurant reservations.
Bill Hader
#52. Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.
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#53. [Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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#54. I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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#55. I can't wait to meet Steven Spielberg or Al Pacino again so I can say, 'I have to tell you how you know me. You know me because I am the worst actor in the world.'
Jim Rash
#56. Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.
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#57. I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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#58. When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there.
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#59. Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.
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#60. 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.
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#61. I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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#62. All I am is what I'm going after.
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#63. Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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#64. I don't belive in God. I believe in...Al Pacino.
Javier Bardem
#65. I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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#66. I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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#67. I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn't want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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#68. Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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#69. 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?
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#70. I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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#71. My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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#72. 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.
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#73. I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.
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#74. 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.
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#75. I am looking forward to seeing my buddy Colin represent in front of Pacino. That's sweet.
Michelle Rodriguez
#76. I always wanted to do films. I'd gone to New York early in 1976 and did a lot of theater, but I really wanted to chase the paths of people like Pacino and Lemmon and those guys. Alan Arkin. Film was where I wanted to go.
Jeff Daniels
#77. I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.
Catherine Deneuve
#78. Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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#79. Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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#80. I am always saying, 'I don't believe in God; I believe in Al Pacino.' And that's true. If I ever get a phone call saying 'Would you like to work with Al Pacino?' I would go crazy.
Javier Bardem
#81. People don't have to be beautiful any more. We don't have any Audrey Hepburns, Rita Hayworths or Ava Gardeners. When you look at Al Pacino and the greatest actors in Hollywood they're all common-looking.
Omar Sharif
#82. I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
Ornella Muti
#83. Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.
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#84. I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.
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#85. Here I was going to work with Pacino thinking, "I'm not going to get lucky twice. There's no way. This guy is going to hand me my ass." He looks like the kind of guy who's going to hand you your ass. It's Al Pacino.
Johnny Depp
#87. I'm a big fan of all the great movie devils, from Walter Huston to Ray Walston to Al Pacino to Jack Nicholson.
Ray Wise
#88. I was a theater guy growing up and I wanted to be Al Pacino, and I think I just looked and sounded too funny.
Charlie Day
#89. 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.
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#90. Without coffee something's missing
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#91. I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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#92. Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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#93. When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
Rain
#94. Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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#95. 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.
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#96. 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.
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#97. 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?
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#98. Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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#99. To me, there were comedies that should go up for Oscars. I think Eddie Murphy in 'The Nutty Professor' was one of the greatest acting performances of all time, but it'd never be recognized that way. They always go for De Niro and Pacino, but Eddie Murphy played seven different people!
Terry Crews
#100. I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way, the play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There's no doubt in my mind about it.
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