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.
AL PACINOFailure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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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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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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