They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
AL PACINOI was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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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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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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Either I act or I die.
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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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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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