Al Pacino Quotes (13 Quotes)

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

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

Vanity is my favourite sin.

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

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.

He sees the gift, ... He sees the real thing, and he's very turned on by that. An old friend of mine used to say, 'If I dig it, it's mine.' And I think with Walter he digs him, he digs what he can do, and therefore it turns him on and he knows he can help him.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.

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.

quality is higher, and the films we are choosing are ones that really found their audience in a massive way through DVD.

I'd like to be remembered as the only man who lived to be 250 years old

Yeah, that's right they were together. Someone put it very distinctly once to me when they thought Brando was the force, in a way, and the genius, and James Dean was kind of a sonnet, you know And to describe Jimmy Dean as a sonnet I feel it's really accurate.

Scarface - first you get the money, then you power and then you get the women

I was a kid when Dean came out. Dean was the inspiration. Even the red jacket he wore in 'Rebel Without a Cause,' you saw that red jacket popping up all over the place. He really reached people in a way it was kind of a phenomenon when you think of it. I wonder what it would be like today, that kind of a person ... he made that connection with his audience. And I remember at that time my mother loved him. He reached everybody.