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Vanity: my favorite sin.

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Al Pacino
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 25
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Manhattan borough
New York City
Alfredo James Pacino
Vanity
Favorite
Sin

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I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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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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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.
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It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.
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I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me. I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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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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I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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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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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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I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.
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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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It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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