Pacino is one of the best actors as he likes to take roles to heart. A methodical actor and former student of HB Studio and Actors Studio, where he was trained by Charlie Laughton and Lee Strasberg. Here are some compilations of Al Pacino quotes.
Pachino made his film debut at the age of 29 in a supporting role in I, Natalie (1969). Pacino had his big break when he landed the role of Michael Corleone in The Godfather in 1972, earning him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
In a career spanning more than five decades, he has won numerous awards, including one Oscar, two Tonys, and two Emmys, making him one of the few entertainers to have won a triple crown of acting. He has been an actor for over 50 years and has been the face of many legendary films including The Godfather, Scent, Scarface, Dog Afternoon, Dick Tracy and Ireland people”.
He is known for playing gangsters including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, Tony Montana in Scarface, Alphonse “Big Boy” Wayward in Dick Tracy, And Carlito Brigant in The Way of Carlitos, although he also makes multiple appearances on the other side of the film The Law. . – As a police officer, detective and lawyer. His performance as Frank Slade in “Scent of a Woman” earned him an Academy Award for Best Actor in 1993, having previously been nominated for seven Oscars, one of which was the same year.
Top 10 Al Pacino Quotes
“It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.”
“The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.”
“I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.”
“Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.”
“They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.”
“The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.”
“Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.”
“When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.”
“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.”
“It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.”
More Al Pacino Quotes
“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 your’e sorry.”
“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.”
“Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.”
“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.”
“I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.”
“My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.”
“That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.”
“There is no happiness. There is only concentration.”
“It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly”
“sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know”
“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.”
“The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.”
“The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.”
“Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?”
“I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.”
“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.”
“Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.”
“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’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.”
“Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse”
“Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.”
“Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.”