The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
AL PACINOThe only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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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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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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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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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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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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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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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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