- By Al Pacino
"Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me."
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.
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I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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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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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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