- By Al Pacino
"I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation."
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That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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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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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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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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.
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It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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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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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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