It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

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.

I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.

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

I've never cared for guns. In fact, when I did 'Scent of a Woman' I had to learn how to assemble one.

Vanity: my favorite sin.

I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name." I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously.