Al Pacino Quotes
I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.
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The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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My dad was a really good surfer, and by the time I was 10, he was dragging me out on some good days at Bells. I'd reckon they were solid, 6-foot days, and he'd tell me to wait on the shoulder. I'd see him coming through the barrel, and he'd just scream at me to go. I'd drop in, and he'd give me a hoot from behind – I've always loved it.
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I love the idea of a website/blog being a catalyst for propelling people out into the world, and I enjoy it most when people write me to say that their world looked or smelled or felt a little different because of something that I wrote.
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It's interesting: John Calley at Warner Bros. helped me put 'Alice' together. It was very unusual back then for a studio to support an actress the way he backed and supported me. He even asked me if I wanted to direct the film, which I didn't feel prepared to at that point.
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I was in a slightly befuddled state by this time and the potent combination of watery beer and whiskey was bringing on a severe attack of drawing, as always happens when I start seeing unusual faces through a haze of controlled drinking. My body becomes a protective casing and lets me observe through the two keyholes on the front of my head.
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Every one excels in something in which another fails.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
