We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
AL PACINOThe truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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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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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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