The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
AL PACINOJamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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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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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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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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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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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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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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