We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
AL PACINOYou’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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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.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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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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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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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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