- By Al Pacino
"The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie."
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you're going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away. They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless. I've been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That's the stuff my dreams are made of.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.
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They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?
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My weaknesses I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.
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I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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