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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.

Al Pacino

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Al Pacino
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 25
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
Manhattan borough
New York City
Alfredo James Pacino
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.
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