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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.

Al Pacino

I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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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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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 would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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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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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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 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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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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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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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