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Al Pacino279 quotes“Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?”
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
Al PacinoAl Pacino The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
Al PacinoAl Pacino Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
Al PacinoAl Pacino I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
Al PacinoAl Pacino I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
Al PacinoAl Pacino And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
Al PacinoAl Pacino Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
Al PacinoAl Pacino Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
Al PacinoAl Pacino Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
Al PacinoAl Pacino There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
Al PacinoAl Pacino I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
Al PacinoAl Pacino I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
Al PacinoAl Pacino I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
Al PacinoAl Pacino There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
Al PacinoAl Pacino I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
Al PacinoAl Pacino I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Jason MomoaJason Momoa Jealousy is invariably a symptom. Just like right now with the whole mortgage crisis, I want to help people get back into their homes.
Magic JohnsonMagic Johnson I was just a big fan of tattoos always growing up, and I wanted something cool that symbolizes what I’ve been through in my life, and everything on my chest and my back is like a collage.
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