Al Pacino Quotes
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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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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It would be incredible to work with Stanley Kubrick and go back in time.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
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In the 1970s and 1980s, I got to do some great work. The Oscars are really nice, but the best part is that I had the opportunity to do that kind of work.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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I had a job since I was old enough to work - since I was, like, 14.
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Work is both my living and my pleasure.
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
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When vastly wealthy people say, 'I'm not leaving my kids any money,' it's typically not true.
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Kindness is wisdom. There is none in lifeBut needs it, and may learn.
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New York is a place that can grind you down and spit you out. A true New Yorker doesn't get ground down - he gets polished.
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Four years ago, I felt the importance of the Olympics and how it is different from other events. It's a completely different atmosphere. The main advice I can give my teammates is to try to enjoy the experience.
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Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.
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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.
