They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
AL PACINOI would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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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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