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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.

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 like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I'm always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain't bad. You can meet people on it.
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Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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Pretty soon I'll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure. The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don't know how long she'll run away from it, but it's there in her.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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 was never very happy with performing it didn't turn me on much.
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I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'
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I'm not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I've always displayed. I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we're very outgoing with our emotions.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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