I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
AL PACINOWhen you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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 probably write a poem every 50 years.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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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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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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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