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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.

Al Pacino

Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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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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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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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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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.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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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 could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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