You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
AL PACINOOn any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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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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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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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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You’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.
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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 don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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