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 PACINOReally, 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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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’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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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 did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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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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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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