The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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 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 never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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