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
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.
Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.
I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.
Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
Scarface - first you get the money, then you power and then you get the women
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.
I'd like to be remembered as the only man who lived to be 250 years old!
I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.
I don't ever give my opinion. Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot onstage. On the other side of the pot was a little girl who had dark hair, and she and I were representing the Italians. And I thought: Is that what an Italian looked like?
I used to wear disguises, like hats and false beards, just to walk around and avoid attention.
When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.