I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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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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