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. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. I don't believe in God, I only believe in Al Pacino, and that's the truth.
Javier Bardem
#6. 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
#7. Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.
Jason Patric
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino.
Oscar Isaac
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. I don't belive in God. I believe in...Al Pacino.
Javier Bardem
#14. I am looking forward to seeing my buddy Colin represent in front of Pacino. That's sweet.
Michelle Rodriguez
#15. 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
#16. I would love to work with Robert De Niro or Al Pacino. I think they're wonderful actors.
Catherine Deneuve
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
Ornella Muti
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. When I was young, 'Scarface' was my favorite film. Al Pacino is my hero. I want to work with him.
Rain
#24. 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
#25. I mean everyone, from Al Pacino to Murphy Guyer, are phenomenal actors.
Richard Schiff
#26. If you love acting and you've ever experienced theater, then you know that in a movie it's almost impossible to live out that experience, unless you're a Pacino or a De Niro or somebody who gets to pick their parts.
Scott Caan
#27. Is it possible to get a cup of coffee-flavored coffee anymore in this country? What happened with coffee? Did I miss a meeting? They have every other flavor but coffee-flavored coffee. They have mochaccino, frappaccino, cappuccino, al pacino ... Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup.
Denis Leary
#28. It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with ... Sir Ben Kingsley.
Aaron Eckhart
#29. There are so many people I would love to work with, like Al Pacino, Paul Newman, Gary Oldman - maybe Tom Cruise. I wanna play his brother in something - so call my agent!
Scott Wolf
#30. I've always said I don't believe in God, I believe in Al Pacino.
Javier Bardem
#31. I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.
Christopher Plummer
#32. I would love to have a part opposite a great actor - like, say, Pacino or De Niro or Hoffman. And to work with a top director. That's my dream.
Jon Lovitz
#33. It's no stretch to picture me standing next to Al Pacino or Robert De Niro. Those are ethnic New York men. I'm an ethnic New York girl. Everybody has their limitations. I mean, I should never be cast as Queen Elizabeth.
Ellen Barkin
#34. I have grown up watching Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, Dev Anand, Amitabh Bachchan and the likes. These are actors who have changed with time. They have no shelf-life. They have immortalised themselves because they have evolved with time.
Arjun Rampal
#35. As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
Eddie Redmayne
#36. I was born in Dallas; then I moved to Allen, Texas. But then I got sent to boarding school, where I started to get fascinated with actors like Al Pacino.
Scott Haze
#37. Working with Al Pacino was an amazing experience. He's such an amazing guy. He's an incredible performer and actor - and, aside from that, just a generous human being.
Seth Numrich
#38. I'm a big Pacino fan. He's a great actor: so much passion and intensity.
Judah Friedlander
#39. I grew up watching Marlon Brando, Christopher Walken, Robert de Niro, and Al Pacino and even Robert Duvall and was impressed by their caliber of work.
Cole Hauser
#40. I love Al Pacino.
Rain
#41. They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.
Bill Burr
#42. For me, the motivation really was to work with Al Pacino. To me, that seemed like an incredible opportunity, just a learning opportunity because I thought so highly of him.
Karen Allen
#43. Michael Caine, Tom Courtenay and Al Pacino made me want to act. I've always been interested in men with a vulnerable side.
Martin Freeman
#44. But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.
John Goodman
#45. I wouldn't be able to act like Al Pacino or play the piano like Dr. John, But I could probably act better than Dr. John and play the piano better than Al Pacino.
Hugh Laurie
#46. 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.
Al Pacino
#47. 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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#48. 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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#49. Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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#50. If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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#51. 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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#52. 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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#53. The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
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#54. 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
#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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#58. 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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#59. 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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#60. 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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#61. What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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#63. Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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#64. If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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#65. 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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#66. 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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#67. The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.
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#68. 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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#69. It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
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#70. 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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#72. 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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#73. I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. 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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#83. 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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#84. Sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know
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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. [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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#88. I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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#89. Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.
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#90. I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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#91. 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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#92. Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.
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#93. 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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#94. I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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#95. All I am is what I'm going after.
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#96. Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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#97. 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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#98. I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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#99. 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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#100. Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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