- By Al Pacino
"I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools."
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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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I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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To be or not to be is [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. 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'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.
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The thing is doing it, that's what it's all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It's a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself. I don't feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there's something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go. Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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