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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.

Al Pacino

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Al Pacino
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 25
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Alfredo James Pacino
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I was never very happy with performing it didn't turn me on much.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing the only way is to work at my craft.
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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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I didn't go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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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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When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call taking up with a writer, something happens.
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I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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[Ocean's Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids. So I've been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I've had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people - you could almost call them marriages, even though I didn't marry. But it was costly.
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I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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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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