Al Pacino Quotes

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

Al Pacino

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• Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Great
  • Art
  • Traditions

• Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Time
  • Democracy

• There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Wonder
  • Story
  • Train

• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Goal

• I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Love
  • Around
  • Days

• Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Everyone
  • Apple
  • Mobile

• Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Enemy
  • Careful
  • U.S.

• When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Light
  • Thought
  • Wall

• My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Life
  • Work
  • She

• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • You
  • Cool
  • Chess

• Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Books
  • Down
  • Relationships

• I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

  

  Kara Walker
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Why
  • Job
  • Day

• I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Me
  • Creative

• A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Culture
  • Ideas
  • Moment

• The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Important
  • Create
  • Sacred

• Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Woman
  • Boring

• Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Years
  • Old
  • Talk

• If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Rest

• Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Life
  • Men
  • Earth

• The star of Bethlehem was a star of hope that led the wise men to the fulfillment of their expectations, the success of their expedition. Nothing in this world is more fundamental for success in life than hope, and this star pointed to our only source for true hope: Jesus Christ.

  

  D. James Kennedy
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• The fear that you come to a show called 'American Horror Story' with is yours. That being said, I'm glad people are afraid, and I hope that I'm contributing to their fear. I'm really not afraid of my own darkness anymore. I'm not afraid of what I'm capable of.

  

  John Carroll Lynch
  • People
  • American
  • Hope

• It’s a trifle. It’s got all of these layers. First there’s a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam, then custard, which I made from scratch, then raspberries, more ladyfingers, then beef sauteed with peas and onions, then a little more custard, and then bananas, and then I just put some whipped cream on top!

  

  Rachel

• The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Life
  • Emotional
  • Actor