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Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.

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Al Pacino
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 25
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Alfredo James Pacino
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To be or not to be is [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend. I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it's probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don't know how long she'll run away from it, but it's there in her.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I've had close relationships with.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work. 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.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name. I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, The Sea Gull, when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. What he does with it, that's something else, but he's got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that's why he has endured.
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