American - Actor | April 25, 1940 -
It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
Al Pacino
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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'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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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 don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.
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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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You do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted.
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I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.
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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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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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