Al Pacino Quotes - Page 2

Love goes through different stages. But it endures.

Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.

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.

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.

Either I act or I die.

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?

If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.

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

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

On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?

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.

It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.

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.

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

I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.

There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness."

"To be or not to be is" [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.

Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.

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

I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.

Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse; grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God... and where can you go from there?

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.