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Al Pacino

(1940) Film Producer United States

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Al Pacino is a film producer from the United States, best known for Al Pacino in conversation with Lawrence Grobel.

Quick Facts About Al Pacino

Born: April 25, 1940
Nationality: United States
Profession: Film Producer
Notable works: Al Pacino in conversation with Lawrence Grobel

About Al Pacino

Alfredo James Pacino is an American actor. Known for his intense performances on stage and screen, Pacino is widely regarded as one of the greatest actors of all time. His career spans more than five decades, during which he has earned many accolades, including an Academy Award, two Tony Awards, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, achieving the Triple Crown of Acting. He has also received four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA, two Actor Awards, and was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2001, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2007, the National Medal of Arts in 2011, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2016, and the Sam Wanamaker Award in 2026. Films in which he has appeared have grossed over $3 billion worldwide.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Academy Awards Academy Award for Best Actor Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film AFI Life Achievement Award BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award Donostia Award

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Theatre World Award Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play Goldene Kamera 2013 Kennedy Center Honors National Medal of Arts National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor National Board of Review Award for Best Actor National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries

Quotes by Al Pacino · Page 2

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse

Littles

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The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.…

Art

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I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't…

Character

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I'm constantly striving to break through to something new. You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be…

Approach

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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.

Challenges

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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that…

Actors

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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

Alive

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That's the way to live - around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come…

Care

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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty. Lee Strasberg is like that, my…

Close relationship

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Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until the last two…

Actor

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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a…

Certain

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I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy…

Acting

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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested…

Feels

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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey,…

Hey

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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I'm in it, whatever…

Communicate

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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they're not used to?…

Audience

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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies…

Corleone

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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that…

Actors

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It's never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you - you know, you have to get up…

Fun

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[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff…

House

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Without coffee something’s missing

Coffee

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Some of the roles that are challenging are more in theater and TV. In movies, there's a tendency to cast actors in…

Actor

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On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a…

Given

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You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I…

Actors

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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And…

Acting

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