Al Pacino Quotes

Al Pacino is an American actor and filmmaker who has had a prolific career in film, theater, and television. Known for his powerful performances and memorable roles, Pacino has received numerous awards and accolades throughout his career, including an Academy Award for Best Actor. He is considered one of the greatest actors of his generation.

You do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitti... -Al Pacino

You do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted.

Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.... -Al Pacino

Theater for me at one point was a lifestyle, too.

I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There... -Al Pacino

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

There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.

My grandmother always came to my shows. She was always concerned about the way I dressed - even later on, when I was well known and I supported her.

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

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

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

Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.

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?

When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Vanity is my favourite sin.... -Al Pacino

Vanity is my favourite sin.

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.

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.

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.

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarfac... -Al Pacino

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

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

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

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

I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I... -Al Pacino

I was not prepared for fame. It hit me hard, and I did not have the capacity to cope.

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

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