Al Pacino Quotes
I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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Let's help those in prison maintain positive connections with their community. If we truly want re-entry to be successful, and we do, people need to come back to a place that still feels like home.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's like throwing a boulder.
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Politics is largely a matter of heart.
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I love comedy; I'm very goofy and spontaneous.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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By five or six, when the heels start to hurt, I kick off my shoes and walk bare feet. But that's not a big deal. Nobody else is at the office at that time, and as for singing loudly, I don't sing loudly. I might hum a tune at times when I am thinking about something, but that's all fine.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
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The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.
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I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called 'The Pen,' and I - you know, I had a crush on a girl, and she left me when I was incarcerated. And I found this poem in this anthology that talked about having your heart broken and being incarcerated.
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I have a degree in journalism, which is something that I make very clear very frequently just so people are aware of it. I went to school to write... Editorial integrity is very important to me.
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My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.
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I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
