- By Al Pacino
"I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation."
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?
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sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know
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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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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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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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