The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
AL PACINOThey cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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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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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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