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
That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
Without coffee something’s missing
The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous.
Either I act or I die.
Vanity is my favourite sin.
We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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.
There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner - and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.