- By Al Pacino
"I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation."
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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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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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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.
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My weaknesses I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.
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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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