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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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Manhattan borough
New York City
Alfredo James Pacino
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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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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom - it was almost overwhelming.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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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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My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.
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Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren't different things. Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I'm in it, whatever that means, I'm expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted - Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can't help himself. You're talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, He's puttin' that in his cash register!
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I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn't want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it's OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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