Al Pacino Quotes

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

Doubt yourself all you want, but you have to make choices in life and live with them.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

You have to make your choice and live with your choice.

I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does.

Nations like individuals, when driven to choose between desperate courses, might at times be compelled to take the chance of destruction, often destroying themselves or suffering irreparable harm.

With us it is not a question of Bolshevism or democracy, but of life or death.

Look, you deal with the choices you are confronted with.

There are moments in your life where you realize you could do nothing, but if you do, you'll probably regret it forever.

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

Living is nothing more or less than doing one thing instead of another.

At any particular moment in a man's life, he can say that everything he has done and not done, that has been done and not been done to him, has brought him to that moment. If he's being installed as Chieftain or receiving a Nobel Prize, that's a fulfilling notion. But if he's in a sleeping bag at ten thousand feet in a snowstorm, parked in the middle of a highway and waiting to freeze to death, the idea can make him feel calamitously stupid.

I guess in the end, it doesn’t matter what we wanted. What matters is what we chose to do with the things we had.

All I know is that I have two choices – stay wrapped in blankets and get on with dying, or get the list back together and get on with living.

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

Looks like I’m going to ruin your day, Big Boy. I choose to live my crappy life a little longer. (Susan)

You have to make a decision, what you want to do in life, ... Your deal can be, you can leave tomorrow. Soon as you leave, you will be forgotten.