Top 120 Al Pacino Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Without coffee something’s missing.”

— Al Pacino

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2. “It’s not personal, it’s strictly business.”

— Al Pacino

3. “I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.”

— Al Pacino

4. “Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.”

— Al Pacino

5. “On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is – can you win or lose like a man?”

— Al Pacino

6. “If you get all tangled up, just tango on.”

— Al Pacino

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

— Al Pacino

8. “Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.”

— Al Pacino

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

— Al Pacino

10. “There is no happiness. There is only concentration.”

— Al Pacino

11. “You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.”

— Al Pacino

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

— Al Pacino

13. “Either I act or I die.”

— Al Pacino

14. “The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.”

— Al Pacino

15. “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

16. “Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.”

— Al Pacino

17. “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.”

— Al Pacino

18. “Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.”

— Al Pacino

19. “Vanity is my favorite sin.”

— Al Pacino

20. “We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.”

— Al Pacino

21. “There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.”

— Al Pacino

22. “All I am is what I’m going after.”

— Al Pacino

23. “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.”

— Al Pacino

24. “Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’”

— Al Pacino

25. “I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.”

— Al Pacino

26. “You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.”

— Al Pacino

27. “The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.”

— Al Pacino

28. “I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.”

— Al Pacino

29. “Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.”

— Al Pacino

30. “Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.”

— Al Pacino

31. “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.”

— Al Pacino

32. “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.”

— Al Pacino

33. “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.””

— Al Pacino

34. “It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound, but in its so merciful way, blunts the edges ever so slightly.”

— Al Pacino

35. “Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.”

— Al Pacino

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

— Al Pacino

37. “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.”

— Al Pacino

38. “The actor becomes an emotional athlete.”

— Al Pacino

39. “A lot of acting is private time.”

— Al Pacino

40. “Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.”

— Al Pacino

41. “I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.”

— Al Pacino

42. “Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.”

— Al Pacino

43. “A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.”

— Al Pacino

44. “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

45. “Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.”

— Al Pacino

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46. “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.”

— Al Pacino

47. “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.”

— Al Pacino

48. “The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.”

— Al Pacino

49. “Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?”

— Al Pacino

50. “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.”

— Al Pacino