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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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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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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To defend - it is very difficult to win two titles in a row.
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Sometimes people think that that you are going softer, or you are going mainstream, but that's not true. It's way more true to change your style.
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You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my 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.
