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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.

Al Pacino

The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Back Bring Earth Like Literal Magnet Stage Thing
Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Anybody Care Do Risk Take
Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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Around Do Dub Finally Line Loop Over Wait
Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Author Bit Bore Education Learn Play School
I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Actor Age Away Fade Hear Like Old Retire Shock Soldier
I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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Access All Many Over People Place Point Thing Wonderful World
I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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Believe Day Go One Time Today
I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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Found Kind Off Out Put Sometimes Temperamental
You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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Appellate Atom Cathedral Connect Desire Dream Ego Fiber Grease Human Impulse Optical Point Sharpen Spilt
They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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Cost Dreams Make Nothing Priceless Real
So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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Audience Each Extraordinary Give Other Sense Thing Turf Wild
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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Actor Dream Journalist Real Stuff Theatre Tomorrow
It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Act Do Older Realize Really Something Until
Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Book Coast College East Lot Person Poetry Present Show Tour Write Year
I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Afterward Feel Gold Guess Medal Now Olympic Oscar Week Win
Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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All Critic Fel Kind Objection Right Sometimes Time Way Wrong

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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