I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
AL PACINOI wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in 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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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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