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 PACINOYou’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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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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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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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