Quotes from Al Pacino

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.

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.

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.

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.

I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.

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.

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.

I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

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.

They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

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

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

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

Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.

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