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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.

Al Pacino

My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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