Al Pacino movie quotes

“The only real truth is the work.”
Al Pacino - Viktor Taransky

“- Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade: Haven't you heard? Conscience is dead.
- Charlie Simms: No, I haven't heard.
- Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade: Well, then, take the fuckin' wax outta your ears! Grow up! It's fuck your buddy, cheat on your wife, call your mother on Mother's Day! Charlie, it's all shit.”
Al Pacino - Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade
Chris O'Donnell - Charlie Simms

“My brother, your father, he and I. Opposites. But I never doubted his love. He would do anything for me. But his temper. Clouded his judgement. I don't want to see the same thing happen to you.”

Al Pacino - Michael Corleone

“- Carl Travers: I was your first, you know that, Arthur? I was your first client, you broke cherry on me.
- Arthur Kirkland: Now is not the time to go down memory lane, Carl.”
Dominic Chianese - Carl Travers
Al Pacino - Arthur Kirkland

“- Ivan Travalian: Eat it. It's healthy. You'll live longer.
- Kreplich: I have a miserable life. I don't want to live longer.”
Al Pacino - Ivan Travalian
Alan King - Kreplich

“- Gloria Travalian: Ivan, I'm not leaving you for another man.
- Ivan Travalian: Larry Kotzwinkle's not a man, he's a duck.”
Tuesday Weld - Gloria Travalian
Al Pacino - Ivan Travalian

“I say what I mean, and I do what I say.”
Al Pacino - Lt. Vincent Hanna

“- Kevin Lomax: What about love?
- John Milton: Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate.”
Keanu Reeves - Kevin Lomax
Al Pacino - John Milton

“God likes to watch. He's a prankster.”
Al Pacino - John Milton

“- Michael Corleone: I feel... I'm getting wiser now.
- Kay Adams Michelson: The sicker you get, the wiser you get, huh?
- Michael Corleone: When I'm dead, I'm gonna be really smart.”
Al Pacino - Michael Corleone
Diane Keaton - Kay Adams Michelson

“- Michael Corleone: My father is no different than any powerful man, any man with power, like a president or senator.
- Kay Adams: Do you know how naive you sound, Michael? Presidents and senators don't have men killed.
- Michael Corleone: Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?”

Al Pacino - Michael Corleone
Diane Keaton - Kay Adams

“Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.”
Al Pacino - Michael Corleone

“- Big Boy Caprice: Police brutality, boys. And this is the fifth time. Lucky for me I don't bruise easily.
- Reporter: Mr. Caprice, do you intend to take legal action against the city for false arrest?
- Big Boy Caprice: Why should I blame the city for something one man is doing? This Tracy character's unstable. The city should get rid of him.
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Al Pacino - Big Boy Caprice
Charles Fleischer - Reporter

“Some people will pay a lot of money for that information; but then your daughter would lose a father, instead of gaining a husband.”

Al Pacino - Michael Corleone

“- Charlie Simms: If you're tangled up, just tango on.
- Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade: You askin' me to dance, Charlie?”
Chris O'Donnell - Charlie Simms
Al Pacino - Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade

“- Arnie: He keeps telling us you're going to make a great lawyer.
- Arthur Kirkland: I wish he could remember that I am a lawyer.
- Arnie: Sometimes he does, sometimes he doesn't, what's it matter? He's still proud of you.”

Sam Levene - Arnie
Al Pacino - Arthur Kirkland

“You touch my sister again, I'll kill you.”

Al Pacino - Michael Corleone

“- Alan Marciano: Why'd I get mixed up with that bitch?
- Lt. Vincent Hanna: Cause she's got a great ass... and you got your head all the way up it! Ferocious, aren't I? When I think of asses, a woman's ass, something comes out of me.”
Daniel L. Reardon - Alan Marciano
Al Pacino - Lt. Vincent Hanna

“Have you no sense of pride in what you do? No sense of duty, no sense of destiny? I'm looking for generals; what do i got? Foot soldiers! I want Dick Tracy dead!”
Al Pacino - Big Boy Caprice

I had the fire in the belly just like you and the odd thing is I still have it. Never left me! I had the dream... and I had the weight. Like one of those guys before me said "If a sparrow falls in Central Park, I feel responsible".

Al Pacino - Mayor John Pappas

“Don't get too cocky, my boy. No matter how good you are, don't ever let them see you coming. That's the gaffe, my friend. You gotta keep yourself small. Innocuous. Be the little guy. You know, the nerd, the leper, shit-kicking surfer.”
Al Pacino - John Milton

“On any given Sunday your either gonna win or lose. The point is: can you win or lose like a man?”
Al Pacino - Tony D'Amato

“- Arthur Kirkland: Where are we going?
- Judge Francis Rayford: You wanna go someplace in particular?
- Arthur Kirkland: No. Down, I would prefer to go down...”

Al Pacino - Arthur Kirkland
Jack Warden - Judge Francis Rayford

“Your power? What good are you to the people without it? But down deep you know there's a line you can't cross, and after a thousand trades and one deal too many, the line gets rubbed out.”
Al Pacino - Mayor John Pappas

“I subscribe to the law of contrary public opinion. If everyone thinks one thing, then I say bet the other way.”
Al Pacino - Ricky Roma