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
Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.
[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
It's not personal, it's strictly business
I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp. To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.
Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
He sees the gift, ... He sees the real thing, and he's very turned on by that. An old friend of mine used to say, 'If I dig it, it's mine.' And I think with Walter he digs him, he digs what he can do, and therefore it turns him on and he knows he can help him.
I'd like to be remembered as the only man who lived to be 250 years old!
quality is higher, and the films we are choosing are ones that really found their audience in a massive way through DVD.
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful -- my personal life suffers.
Scarface - first you get the money, then you power and then you get the women
I was a kid when Dean came out. Dean was the inspiration. Even the red jacket he wore in 'Rebel Without a Cause,' you saw that red jacket popping up all over the place. He really reached people in a way; it was kind of a phenomenon when you think of it. I wonder what it would be like today, that kind of a person ... he made that connection with his audience. And I remember at that time my mother loved him. He reached everybody.
It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.