306 Quotes by Al Pacino

Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.

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.

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.

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

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

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.

All I am is what I'm going after.

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.

The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.