We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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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.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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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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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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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