Al Pacino Quotes
When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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I know having a Jason Bourne all alone in a field firing at bad guys is much more dramatic, but it's not real.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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I think just being on 'One Tree Hill' has given me a lot of confidence.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'
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I wish I had given more time to learning classical singing.
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I have no hesitation doing children's movies. Zero. And I don't even have kids.
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I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.
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The girls want to see the rips on your stomach - they like that.
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Suddenly, Dallas has become a big part of my life, and now I feel like I'm part of the fabric of the community here.
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I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
