Al Pacino Quotes

If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

Al Pacino

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• May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.

  

  K. Flay
  • Better
  • Lazy
  • Month

• In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Practice
  • Difference
  • Theory

• 'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Giving
  • Community

• A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Heart
  • Guy
  • Film

• Someone told me, 'When you go see Pearl Jam, it's going to be a spiritual experience,' and it was. It was my first time seeing them live, and I've been a lifelong fan. Eddie Vedder's voice is a million times better live, and I couldn't believe the passion he put into every single song.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Live

• The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • World
  • Men
  • Silent

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Know

• If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Self
  • Conquer
  • Brainy

• Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Political
  • Fear
  • Emotional

• The whole fame question is one that is constantly intriguing to me. I think that fame is something that other people create about you. Whether you jump into that or not is up to you – and whether you have the talents for jumping into it or not.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • People
  • Me
  • Fame

• Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

  

  W. D. Richter
  • Why
  • Space
  • Always

• A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Women
  • Country
  • Children

• I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Human

• Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you're on the journey. But you've got to be willing to have vision and foresight that leads you to an incredible end.

  

  Usher
  • May
  • Success
  • Vision

• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • You
  • Nothing
  • Captain

• I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Black

• People often ask me why I sing with a strong Irish accent. I suppose when I was five years old, I spoke with a strong Irish accent, so I sang with one, too.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • People
  • Why
  • Strong

• My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Words

• I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

  

  Mike Figgis
  • Art
  • Film
  • Theatre

• The goal was just to finish the movie and get it out in a few theaters. To think that decades later people would still be thinking and talking about it, I could have never imagined.

  

  Don Coscarelli
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Movie

• If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

  

  Al Pacino
  • People
  • Understand
  • Empathize