Al Pacino Quotes

Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

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• I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I have an older brother who is an actor as well.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Brother
  • Actor
  • Well

• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Art
  • Happiness

• I miss Colombia. It's a great place.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Great
  • Place
  • Colombia

• If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.

  

  Uta Hagen
  • Want
  • Actor
  • Existence

• I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

  

  Ozwald Boateng
  • Good
  • Film
  • Emotion

• On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Great
  • Political
  • Reality

• The incentive for digging up gossip has become so great that people will break the law for the opportunity to take that picture. Then it crosses the line into invasion of privacy. The thing that's really bad about it, though, is that the tabloids don't tell the truth.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Great
  • Giving
  • Education

• Acting was something that I grew up just doing. I certainly never thought about it.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Up
  • Thought
  • Acting

• To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Me
  • End
  • Actor

• The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Why
  • Democracy

• I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Know
  • Courage
  • Acting

• Utah is one of the nation's leaders in rebounding from the Great Recession.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Great
  • Nation
  • Utah

• With modelling, you provide an image that is fake; with acting you have to provide an image that's real.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Fake

• Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Why
  • Me
  • Forever

• I got it into my head that I was going to be starring in movies that I wrote, so that's what I did. I stopped acting in all things, and I wrote my first script, which was optioned a week after I finished it.

  

  Larry Bishop
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Week

• Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• I've been a fan of vampire fiction since way, way back - I loved Stephen King, Anne Rice, Peter Straub, Robert McCammon, Shirley Jackson, lots of great horror and paranormal fiction.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Great
  • King
  • Loved

• Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I am cynical about politicians. My experience of politicians has been thoroughly negative. I have found that politicians are people that can not be taken at face value. There are very few politicians I have been impressed with.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Value
  • Negative
  • Politicians

• As a Middle Eastern male, when you're in a Chuck Norris movie of the week, you know you're going to die.

  

  Maz Jobrani
  • Movie
  • Die

• Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Great
  • Why
  • Acting