- By Al Pacino
"I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation."
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away. They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless. 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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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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