We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
AL PACINOI found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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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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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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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I 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.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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