Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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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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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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