- By Al Pacino
"Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals."
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I like women who can cook. That's first. Love is very important, but you've got to have a friend first - you want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you're with is also your friend.
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I believe in one day at a time; you've got TODAY, that's what you' ve got.
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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