- 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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you. You're in a conversation and everybody's agreeing with what you're saying - even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.
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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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The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.
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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.
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Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.
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I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.
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