Al Pacino movie quotes

“I've suffered such a loss and I have spent those sleepless nights trying desperately to squelch down that vile-ish instinct for revenge. I have wondered if this pain will ever abate. I've learned that time does not heal the wound. It will, though, in it's most merciful way, blunt the edge ever so slightly.”
Al Pacino - Jack Gramm

“You're a champion. A champion goes down eighty six times his up on the eighty seventh. I'm not going to let you stay down, besides this is not about you or you or me, it's about your gift. Your gift transcends all this shit. Your gift is cosmic, metaphysic, eternal.”

Al Pacino - Walter

“No ex-husband of Gloria's ever has to apologize to me about anything. We're like a little club.”
Al Pacino - Ivan Travalian

“Mount Everest just moved into my pants.”
Al Pacino - Val

“When in doubt... fuck.”
Al Pacino - Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade

“Stats are not enough, you need a voice! Gamblers are ready to risk what they can't afford for what they can't have. You're selling the world's rarest commodity: certainty, in an uncertain world.”
Al Pacino - Walter

“Friends and money - oil and water.”
Al Pacino - Michael Corleone

“You didn't think all hell wouldn't break loose? You didn't think every fucking fed wouldn't drop what they were doing and dive in to protect one of their own? What do you morons think, that this is little Italy? Wake up! This is the twenty-fuckin'-first century!”
Al Pacino - Starkman

“I don't believe in capital punishment. I do believe in the rights of victims. I do believe that they deserve recompense, no matter how significant or insignificant it may be in comparison to the loss suffered.”
Al Pacino - Jack Gramm

“- Val: So, what'll it be. Chew gum, or kick ass.
- Doc: I'm all outta gum.”
Al Pacino - Val
Christopher Walken - Doc

“Know what you know, and know what you don't know. And know that I gotta know everything you know as soon as you know it or sooner.”
Al Pacino - Walter

“You're a goddamn quarterback! You know what that means? It's the top spot, kid. It's the guy who takes the fall. It's the guy everybody's looking at first. The leader of a team who will support you when they understand you. Who will break their ribs and their noses and their necks for you, because they believe. 'Cause you make them believe....” (continue)(continue reading)
Al Pacino - Tony D'Amato

- Gloria Travalian: Ivan. I'm hurting you.
- Ivan Travalian: That's the kindest thing you've said to me in six months: "Ivan, I'm hurting you".
Tuesday Weld - Gloria Travalian
Al Pacino - Ivan Travalian

There's this parish priest, goes up to the Pope, drops down on his knees, starts weeping... asking forgiveness: "Holy father, holy father, what am I to do? What am I to do? I do not believe in God anymore. What am i to do?”. And you know what the pope said? "Fake it”.
Al Pacino - Walter Burke

“Rule number one: do not get caught.”
Al Pacino - Walter Burke

“The first and perhaps only great mayor was Greek. He was Pericles of Athens, and he lived some 2500 years ago, and he said all things good of this Earth flow into the city because of the city's greatness. Well, we were great once. Can we not be great again?”
Al Pacino - Mayor John Pappas

“- Val: how's your health?
- Hirsch: Well, they took something out of me a couple of months ago.
- Val: What'd they take out?
- Hirsch: I don't know. I didn't ask, it's none of my business. But I'm a little more streamlined now, a little more aerodynamic.”
Al Pacino - Val
Alan Arkin - Hirsch

“Lawyers are the devil's ministry.”
Al Pacino - John Milton

“- Mayor John Pappas: You don't know what menschkeit means?
- Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun: No, I don't.
- Mayor John Pappas: Menschkeit, you know... something between men... it's about honor, and character... untranslatable. That's why it's Yiddish.”
Al Pacino - Mayor John Pappas
John Cusack - Deputy Mayor Kevin Calhoun

“I never left a source hang out to dry, ever! Abandoned! Not 'til right fucking now. When I came on this job, I came with my word intact. I'm gonna leave with my word intact. Fuck the rules of the game!”
Al Pacino - Lowell Bergman

“I'm angry. I'm very angry, Ralph. You know, you can ball my wife if she wants you to. You can lounge around here on her sofa, in her ex-husband's dead-tech, post-modernistic bullshit house if you want to. But you do not get to watch my fucking television set!”
Al Pacino - Lt. Vincent Hanna

“Anybody ask, anybody about Lefty from Mulberry Street. You’re pissing on the wrong fuckin’ tree.”
Al Pacino - Lefty

“His execution was not a cause for celebration, nor is it a vindication. It is a chapter in the road to justice and recovery.”

Al Pacino - Jack Gramm

“We constantly need to remind ourselves we're alive. Gambling's not your problem. It's this need to feel something. To convince yourself you exist. That's the problem.”
Al Pacino - Walter

“I'm known. Forget about it.”
Al Pacino - Lefty