We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
AL PACINORomantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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