Al Pacino Quotes
I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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At school I got teased because I was so thin and awkward-looking. But the girls on TV looked similar to me. I would say to my mum, 'The girls at school are teasing me, but I look like those girls on TV.'
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what you're doing is not any kind of public show, until you're ready for it.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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I think the Priem Minister has to be a butcher and know the joints.
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I like music, I listened to all rappers; people like Jeezy, Yo Gotti, T.I.
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Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.
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Your average teenager can't relate to a girl who casts magic spells. But she does understand someone who is torn about her upbringing and the situation in her life.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
