I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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