Al Pacino movie quotes
303 quotes from 15 movies
Scarface (1983) as Tony Montana
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[proposing to a girl] Okay, here's the story. I come from the gutter. I know that. I got no education......but that's okay. I know the street, and I'm making all the right connections. With the right woman, there's no stopping me. I could go right to the top. Anyway......what I got to tell you is this: I like you. I liked you the first time I laid eyes on you.
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Let her go. Another Quaalude, she's gonna love me again.
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Orders? You giving me orders? Amigo, the only thing in this world that gives orders is balls. You got that? Balls. [to Frank]
The Devil's Advocate (1997) as John Milton
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I'm the hand up Mona Lisa's skirt. I'm a surprise, Kevin. They don't see me coming: that's what you're missing.
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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-kickin' serf. Look at me. [He stops and pauses.] Underestimated from day one. You'd never think I was a master of the universe, now would ya?
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A woman's shoulders are the front lines of her mystique, and her neck, if she's alive, has all the mystery of a border town. A no-man's land in that battle between the mind and the body.
Heat (1995) as Vincent Hanna
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I've got three dead bodies on a sidewalk off Venice boulevard, Justine, I'm sorry if the goddamn...chicken...got overcooked.
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'Cause she's got a great ass! And you've got your head... all the way up it!...Ferocious, aren't I?! See when I think of asses—a woman's ass—something comes out of me!
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I gotta hold on to my angst. I preserve it because I need it. It keeps me sharp, on the edge, where I gotta be.
The Godfather (1972) as Michael Corleone
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Never hate your enemies. It clouds your judgement.
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The Corleone Family is thinking of giving up all its interests in the olive oil business and settling out here. Now Moe Greene will sell us his share of the casino and the hotel so it could be completely owned by the Family...I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.
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[to Fredo, revealing his knowledge of his brother's betrayal] I know it was you Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!
Carlito's Way (1993) as Carlito Brigante
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This guy, this counsellor in Lewisburg, Mr Seawald, once said to me: “Charlie, you run out of steam. You can’t sprint all the way. You gotta stop sometime. You can’t buck it forever. It catches up to you. It gets you. You don’t get reformed, you just run out of wind.”
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Dumb move, man. Dumb move. But it’s like them old reflexes comin’ back. I know what’s supposed to happen now. Benny’s gotta go down. And if I don’t do it, they’re gonna say: “Carlito, he’s flaky, man. Slacked-out. A used-to-be bad guy. Joint got to Carlito.” The street is watchin’. She is watchin’ all the time.
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You ain’t a lawyer no more, Dave. You’re a gangster now. You’re on the other side. Whole new ball game. You can’t learn about it at school, and you can’t have a late start.
Scent of a Woman (1992) as Frank Slade
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How's that for cornball?
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The IQ of sloths and the manners of Banshees! He's a car-mechanic, she's a home-maker! He knows as much about cars as a beauty queen and she bakes cookies that taste like wing-nuts. As for the tots, they're twits.
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PUERTO RICANS!!! They always made the best infantry men!
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) as Ricky Roma
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**** you Dave, you know you got a big mouth. You make a close, the whole place stinks of your farts for a week. The amount you just ingested. Oh what a big man you are! "Hey, let me buy you a pack of gum - I'll show you how to chew it," ooh. Your pal closes and all that comes out of your mouth is bile. How **** up you are!
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You stupid **** ****. Hey, Williamson, I'm talking to you, shithead. You just cost me $6,000. Six thousand dollars, and one Cadillac. That's right. What are you going to do about it? What are you going to do about it, asshole? You're **** shit. Where did you learn your trade, you stupid **** ****, you idiot? Who ever told you that you could work with men?
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They say that it was so hot in downtown today, grown men were walking up to cops on street corners begging them to shoot.
Donnie Brasco (1997) as Lefty
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In all the five boroughs, I'm known, forget about it. I'm known all over the ****in' world. Anybody, ask anybody about Lefty from Mulberry Street, eh? You pissin' up the wrong ****in' tree, my friend.
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I never hear from my boss until he dies, then my whole life gets turned upside down!
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In our thing, you get sent for, you go in alive, you come out dead, and it's your best friend that does it.
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) as Sonny Wortzik
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[to his mother] I'm a ****-up and I'm an outcast! If you get near me you're gonna get it- you're gonna get **** over and **** out!
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[to Detective Sergeant Eugene Moretti] Bank robbing is a federal offense. You got me on kidnapping, armed robbery. You're gonna bury me, man!
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[to Salvatore "Sal" Naturile] That's all they're interested in - it's a freak show to them. I can't control it, Sal - let 'em say what they want. Forget it. It don't matter.
Insomnia (2002) as Will Dormer
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You don't get it, do you, Finch? You're my job. You're what I'm paid to do. You're about as mysterious to me as a blocked toilet is to a **** plumber. Reasons for doing what you did? Who gives a ****?
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[last words] Let me sleep. Just let me sleep.
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Hap Eckhart: We got the Halibut Calabrese, the Halibut Olympian.
Will Dormer: Keep going.
Hap Eckhart: Halibut Cajun style.
Will Dormer: I can't wait to see what they got for dessert.
Will Dormer: Keep going.
Hap Eckhart: Halibut Cajun style.
Will Dormer: I can't wait to see what they got for dessert.
…And Justice For All (1979) as Arthur Kirkland
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[about Judge Rayford] This is a man bent on killing himself! It's no secret; a guard found him in his chambers once trying to hang himself! This is a man who's making value decisions on people's lives!
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At this point, I would just like to say that what this committee is doing in theory is highly commendable. However, in practice, it sucks... and I'm not going to answer any more questions.
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Carl Travers: I was your first, you know that, Arthur? I was your first client, you broke cherry on me.
Arthur: Now is not the time to go down memory lane, Carl.
Arthur: Now is not the time to go down memory lane, Carl.
The Irishman (2019) as Jimmy Hoffa
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If I said it once, I said it a thousand times, I don't care they're Irish. I don't care they're Catholic. If there's one person you can't trust in this life, it's millionaires' kids.
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You always charge a guy with a gun! With a knife, you run away.
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You don't keep a man waiting. The only time you do is when you want to say something. When you want to say **** you.
The Insider (1999) as Lowell Bergman
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You'd better take a good look, because I'm getting two things: pissed off and curious.
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What do I tell the next source when the next tough story comes along, huh? 'Hang in with us, you'll be ok maybe'? What got broken here doesn't go back together.
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I'm Lowell Bergmann, I'm from 60 Minutes. You know, you take the "60 Minutes" out of that sentence, nobody returns your phone call.
Any Given Sunday (1999) as Tony D'Amato
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Doesn't make sense, my not having a home, a family, a life.
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This game has got to be about more than winning. You're part of something here... along the way, I want you to cherish it, because when it's gone, it's gone forever.
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[to Beamen] You're very, very young... and your very, very stupid.
Dick Tracy (1990) as Big Boy Caprice
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I'm gonna miss you but all's fair in love and business. Benjamin Franklin.
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Because I have a vision. A big boss must have a vision. We gotta town with thousands of small stores and businesses. People are working real hard. I think they should be working real hard. For us. Because we are for the people. "And if you ain't for the people, you can't buy the people." Lincoln.
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There was one Napoleon...one Washington...one me!
