Al Pacino Quotes
[Ocean's Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids. So I've been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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Everyone thinks I land in a chopper on top of my building and I have the most cushy existence. Could you understand that I might have the most messed up life myself?
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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If you come to my house, you won't see a wall of trophies or things like that. I'm sort of 'on to the next thing' all the time.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.
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I'm really great with weapons: I did a lot of bo and staff training for 'Immortals.' I love knives. I'm a pretty good shot. But I love hand-to-hand combat.
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Amelia shows that it's not what happens in life that counts, but rather how you frame it, how you talk about it.
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[Ocean's Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids. So I've been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
