Al Pacino Quotes
I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
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The Tea Party people say they're angry about socialism, but maybe they're really angry about capitalism. If there's a sense of being looked down upon, it's that sense of failure that's built into a system that assures everyone they can make it to the top, but then reserves the top for only a tiny fraction of the strivers.
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The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
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I try to lead by example.
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All that I say is, examine, inquire. Look into the nature of things. Search out the grounds of your opinions, the for and against. Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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If Al Jazeera America becomes just another mainstream TV station, it is definitely not going to succeed.
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As much as we were very proud of being a pop band, I know we never felt like we fit into that category.
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I can do a good John Wayne.
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I honestly think that kids should not exercise: they should keep fit through play. The most important age is zero to seven, both for the kid and the parent - for parents, because this is the time when your kid learns how to walk, talk and other behaviour.
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With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.
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I was told freshman Republicans don't get their bills heard.
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With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.
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I'm not really a femme fatale.
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Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but wonder which ends in wonder, and is satisfied with wonder, is the quality of an idiot.
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A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
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I know there will be X amount of women being diagnosed. I love to say, You can get through it. You can.
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I started a production company out of necessity, the need for great narratives for actors of color.
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Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.
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I feel very secure about the role of the actor in the future. They need us, because stories are about people.
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I'm sure I went through a stage when I resented being Indian because in every other manner, in terms of cultural reference points and vocabulary and all the rest of it, I was way ahead of everybody else - so the one thing that set me back was being Indian. And I couldn't do anything about it.
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I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
