I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.
I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.
I want to reach the status of becoming a mogul. And the only way you get there is by work.
I don't look at obstacles as obstacles. I look at them as things that were put there for a reason. You can approach these things negatively or positively. I think those that approach it with a negative mindset only get a negative outcome.
I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, 'We're black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we're all brought up differently. '
My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what's mine.
I think women go crazy for a reason. It's not like it just happens.
Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.
I think there's a general confusion that my work is about types of photography. But really that's just a tool to introduce some questions I have about seeing. What happens when all of these conditions and structures and histories and cultures and tools you have around you begin to fail? On the one hand there is an engagement with histories and cultures, and on the other, there is this very lonesome space of actually coming to terms with seeing.
I'm damned if I'm going to be eaten by a bear when I'm naked. " "I'm sure it's a more pleasant experience dressed.
That was an important thing to learn - the more preparation you do the more a subject will respect you. But also, the more you'll think about what the real story is.