What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
AL PACINOThe truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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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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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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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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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Either I act or I die.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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