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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse

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Al Pacino
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 25
Film Actor
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Film Producer
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Manhattan borough
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Alfredo James Pacino
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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 turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq, you're going to get a sense of what the hell's going on there. Boy, you'll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that's why I guess it's semi-autobiographical.
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Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.
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I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.
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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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I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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