Al Pacino Quotes
Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.
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I don't think I could think of a single thing that's more isolating than being famous.
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There's precedent for adjudicatory proceedings on technology issues to have massive consumer and business benefits. One of the most famous was the so-called Carterfone decision in 1968.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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I'm a big soccer fan, so any soccer player that I meet, I always get star struck. I've met a lot of big stars - Justin Timberlake, Michael Buble - and I don't ever get starstruck, but when I met famous ex-football players, I just got completely starstruck.
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Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.
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Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like, 'Oh, I'm trying to be famous' - I try to lead as normal a life as possible - but sometimes it's annoying. It's fine; it's not a massive problem, but sometimes it's just a bit uncomfortable.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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I didn't grow up thinking I'd be a decorator. Design is my greatest passion, and it naturally just pulled me down the path. Same with TV. Being famous or having a show was never the motivation. I got a call and was swept up by the challenge of that first small space redesign.
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I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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I don't like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
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Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
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Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.
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Welles is at once as abnormal and as natural as Niagara Falls.
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Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
