Quotes from Al Pacino

Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.

All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars ' mainly because I would be too shy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

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.

You'll never be alone if you've got a book.

The World Is Yours

It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

Women! What can you say? Who made 'em? God must have been a fuckin' genius. The hair... They say the hair is everything, you know. Have you ever buried your nose in a mountain of curls... just wanted to go to sleep forever? Or lips... and when they touched, yours were like... that first swallow of wine... after you just crossed the desert.

sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know

Vanity is my favourite sin.

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

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.

Attica! Attica! Attica!

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

The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every break of the game every minute, every second.

Whenever I get feel an urge to exercise, I lie down and take a nap.

Whenever I feel the urge to exercise, I lie down and nap until the urge passes.

Whenever I feel the urge to exercise, I lie down and take a nap instead.