If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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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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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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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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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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