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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.

Al Pacino

I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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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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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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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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Better Bug Little People Than Thing Upset You
Failure’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.
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Always Early Even Fail Failure Felt Kind Misunderstood On
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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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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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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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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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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’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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