The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
AL PACINOI want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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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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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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