Al Pacino
Al Pacino
Alfredo James "Al" Pacinois an American actor of stage and screen, filmmaker, and screenwriter. Pacino has had a career spanning fifty years, during which time he has received numerous accolades and honors both competitive and honorary, among them an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a British Academy Film Award, four Golden Globe Awards, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the National Medal of Arts. He...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth25 April 1940
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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.
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.
Sometimes you're fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
Learning (Shakespeare's plays) ...in school was a bit of a bore.
Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don't sum up a man's life in one moment.
Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.
It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them to like.
I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
I've always been in the theater. I've always gone to it. That's been my way to cope. Early on in my career, I remember running - fleeing - to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
It's not personal, it's strictly business