The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
AL PACINOWomen have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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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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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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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 try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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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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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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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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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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