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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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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I play on the left hand side, and I try to do the best I can.
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Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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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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Focusing on one mildly disturbing, semi-controllable issue allows the mind to stuff much greater terrors in relatively tidy packages.
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I think casting is everything. You get a great cast and - certainly, as happens in 'The Hour' - so many of those performances on the page were transformed by those actors who took those parts and made it into something completely different.
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Every time someone uses a bathroom and they flush, all the bacteria is shot into the air.
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Having a book censored means something. It means you have deeply offended one or more people who felt they needed to protect unsuspecting readers from your inflammatory words, thoughts, and images.
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Working with Mel Gibson is a little like waltzing with a hurricane. It's always exciting, and you're never quite sure where it's going to take you.
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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.
