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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More Al Pacino Quotes
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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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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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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