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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 Pacino

It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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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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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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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.

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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.

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