Al Pacino Quotes

Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.

We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.

My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.

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

The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.

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

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

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 wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.

What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?