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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

Al Pacino

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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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Television Actor
Manhattan borough
New York City
Alfredo James Pacino
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