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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, achieving the Triple Crown of Acting by winning an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and an Emmy Award. He was honored with the Cecil B. DeMille Award in…
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People.com: John Goodman Says He ‘Drew So Much Inspiration from’ 2-Time Costar Al Pacino: ‘Another Guy I Love to Death’
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“Mr. Pacino has not been this uncomplicatedly appealing since his Dog Day Afternoon days, and he makes Johnny”
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“Martin Bregman discovered me ... I was 26, 25 ... he discovered me and became my manager. And that”
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The Times of India: Al Pacino to Robert De Niro: 5 Hollywood dads who welcomed their children after age 75
Pacino's locker room monologue from Any Given Sunday was used in a national campaign for Pfizer
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Pacino released his bestselling memoir titled Sonny Boy with Penguin Press that covers his life from a challenging childhood in the South Bronx to becoming an iconic actor
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Pacino presented the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 96th Academy Awards, the third time he presented the Academy Award for Best Picture (first in 1995 with Robert de Niro and second in 1997)
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Said it was appalling to learn about the rumor now and clarified that he skipped the ceremony due to his struggles with fame
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Pacino starred in Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness, a film about Amedeo Modigliani, which he co-produced alongside Johnny Depp and Barry Navidi
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Pacino returned to the screen in a supporting role by playing a thief and fixer Xavier Crane in Michael Keaton's Knox Goes Away, a noir thriller that follows a contract killer diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dement
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Did a one-night-only fundraiser, Al Pacino Live on Stage, featuring a career retrospective and Q&A session, to support SCLA
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In 2022, he did a one-night-only fundraiser, Al Pacino Live on Stage, featuring a career retrospective and Q&A session, to support SCLA.
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Pacino played Aldo Gucci in Ridley Scott's House of Gucci
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Participated in the same activity for David Rabe's The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
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Joined Geoffrey Rush for Simply Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice, a one-night-only staged benefit reading to support the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles
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Pacino played Teamsters chief Jimmy Hoffa, alongside Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci, in Martin Scorsese's Netflix film The Irishman, based on the 2004 book I Heard You Paint Houses by Charles Brandt
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Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2016).
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Pacino received the Kennedy Center Honor
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And closed on January 21, 2016, after 97 performances
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Pacino took the title role in the comedy-drama Danny Collins
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Appeared as the guest speaker to share stories and experience with the New York Film Academy students after a special advanced screening of his film, The Humbling and participated in a Q&A with them
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Prior to the premiere of Wilde Salomé, a 2011 American documentary-drama film written, directed by and starring Pacino
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Won National Medal of Arts (2011).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for You Don't Know Jack (2011).
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Was the distinguished speaker at the Rochester Institute of Technology's Brick City Homecoming and Family Weekend to a sold-out crowd of 4,800
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for You Don't Know Jack (2010).
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In the United States, after having been released in various other countries in 2007
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Awarded AFI Life Achievement Award (2007).
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Visited Trinity College Dublin to accept the honorary patronage of the University Philosophical Society for his contribution to theatre and for bringing the work of Oscar Wilde to Broadway audiences
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The University Philosophical Society of Trinity College Dublin awarded Pacino the Honorary Patronage of the Society
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The American Film Institute named Pacino the recipient of the 35th AFI Life Achievement Award
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film for Angels in America (2004).
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Angels in America (2004).
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Featured Pacino as a CIA recruiter and co-stars Colin Farrell
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Won Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award (2001).
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For lifetime achievement in motion pictures
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Alongside other actors, he volunteered in the America: A Tribute to Heroes charity telethon to take telephone pledges from the public during the live broadcast to raise funds for the victims and families impacted by the
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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
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Pacino starred alongside Jerry Orbach in a low-budget film adaptation of Ira Lewis' play Chinese Coffee, which was released to film festivals
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Visited Yale University to conduct a master class for the Yale Dramatic Association, attend a question-and-answer session following screenings of his films, The Insider and Looking for Richard, and receive an award in
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Pacino starred as 60 Minutes producer Lowell Bergman in the multi-Oscar nominated The Insider opposite Russell Crowe, and in Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday
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Awarded Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Documentaries for Looking for Richard (1997).
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Awarded Donostia Award (1996).
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Pacino starred in his theatrical docudrama Looking for Richard, a performance of selected scenes of William Shakespeare's Richard III and a broader examination of Shakespeare's continuing role and relevance in popular cu
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Continued his support for the theater by directing and starring in the revival of Eugene O'Neill's Hughie production
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Won Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (1994).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for Scent of a Woman (1993).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Scent of a Woman (1993).
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In which he played Carlito Brigante, a gangster released from prison with the help of his corrupt lawyer (Penn) and vows to go straight
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Awarded Academy Awards (1992).
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Appeared in the double-bill of Salome and Chinese Coffee, which served as a $50-a-show fundraiser for the Circle in the Square Theatre to reduce its debt and was a successful run
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Pacino starred in Frankie and Johnny with Michelle Pfeiffer, who co-starred with Pacino in Scarface
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Of which critic Roger Ebert described Pacino as "the scene-stealer"
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“I remember back when everything was happening,”
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In producer Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival
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Pacino worked on his personal project, The Local Stigmatic, a 1969 off-Broadway play by the English writer Heathcote Williams
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Pacino offered The Mirror Theater Ltd his production of Hughie by Eugene O'Neill, but the company was unable to do it at the time due to the small cast
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Pacino became a major donor for The Mirror Theater Ltd, alongside Dustin Hoffman and Paul Newman, matching a grant from Laurance Rockefeller
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“O ator se torna um atleta emocional. O processo é doloroso -- a minha vida pessoal sofre.”
“Vaidade é meu pecado favorito.”
“[Su Lee Strasberg, suo maestro all’Actor’s Studio] Era il guru della recitazione, poter imparare da lui è stata un’esperienza incredibile.”
“o personagem John Milton, no filme o Advogado do Diabo.”
“Mi sento più vivo in un teatro che in qualunque altro posto, ma quello che faccio in teatro l'ho preso dalla strada.”
“Off-Off-Broadway is absolutely necessary. It doesn't have to be sanctioned by the state, subsidized or anything. The plank and the passion is what it's about.”
“[A Chris O'Donnell dopo le riprese di Scent of a Woman] Nonostante io non ti vedessi, mi sono reso conto che eri grande.”
“You need friends, especially in the theatre, you need friends. You need people to interchange with, interface with, connect with. Together you’re going to make it, you’re going to do it together, you’re going to put it on, whatever it is.”
“El problema conmigo es, supongo, la forma en que me expreso. Hay que estar conmigo 50 años para poder entender de qué hablo».[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].”
“Quando reciti da un po' di tempo, diventa piuttosto facile accendersi e spegnersi! Quando sei all'inizio, senti il bisogno di rimanere nel personaggio il più a lungo possibile. Come attore devi pagare un certo prezzo per tornare al mondo reale, tanto che diventa quasi più facile rimanere nella parte per tutto il tempo.”
“The greatest theatre that I experienced in my life was The Living Theatre and they were Off-Off-Broadway. And that was in the fifties.”
“En Estados Unidos, casi todos los italianos son mitad italianos. Excepto yo. Soy completamente italiano. Soy mayormente siciliano, y tengo un poco de napolitano. Conmigo, te sentirás como pez en el agua».[In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me].”
“Tutta la mia vita è stata un lancio verso la luna, e finora sono stato un ragazzo piuttosto fortunato.”
“Czekam na taki czas, gdy zwykli ludzie staną się sławni właśnie dlatego, że są zwykli!”
“Quien persiste en su locura, algún día será sabio».[He who persists at his folly will one day be wise].”
“Tutti pensano che gli attori sono dei bugiardi. Si dice: "smettila di recitare". Ma io credo che si reciti solo nella vita, mentre nell'arte si persegue solo la verità.”
“Siempre decían que esa época, los 70, era de chicos guapos, ¡y entonces llegué yo!».[People always said that time, the '70s, was about pretty boys, and then I came along!].”
“Un actor con demasiado dinero suele encontrar la manera de deshacerse de él».[An actor with too much money will usually find a way to get rid of it].”
“Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, possono essere presi sul serio. Non so se io possa esserlo ancora, perché non ho ancora realizzato abbastanza nella mia vita.”
“Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, they can be taken seriously. I don’t know that I can be yet, because I haven’t accomplished enough things in my life.”
“Аль Пачино - Интервью в Актерской студии / Al Pacino - Inside the Actors Studio”
“Im mniej się czegoś pragnie, tym bardziej to do człowieka przychodzi. Będzie tak, jak musi być. Zawsze, gdy zmuszałem się do czegoś, coś szło nie tak.”
“In Panico a Needle Park, interpretavo il ruolo di uno spacciatore all'angolo di una strada — e c’era un tizio che stava realmente spacciando eroina proprio lì davanti a me. Io ho guardato lui, lui ha guardato me: mi sono sentito davvero confuso. [...] Ho rifiutato molti film prima di fare il mio primo. Sapevo che era arrivato il momento per me di entrare nel mondo del cinema.”
“In The Panic in Needle Park, I was playing the 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. [...] I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.”
“Marty Bregman pushed and helped get it together. Without him, I don’t know what I would have done. He is directly responsible for five movies. He was just a great influence on my career. [...] He saw me in an off-Broadway show and said that he was willing to back me with anything I wanted to do. [...] Encouraged me to do The Godfather. Serpico was completely his idea. He got me to do Dog Day.”
“Ero stanco dei film. Semplicemente non volevo fare altri film. Li trovavo una seccatura. Avevo fatto anni di teatro e pensavo di essere uno di quegli attori che non riescono ad adattarsi al cinema, perché lo trovavo troppo laborioso. Credo di essere stato troppo duro con me stesso. Stavo lavorando in un mezzo che non conoscevo e mi sentivo insicuro.”
“I was tired of films. I just didn’t want to make a movie. I found it a hassle. I had done years of stage and I thought I was one of those actors who couldn’t adjust to film, because it was too laborious. I guess I was just too tough on myself. I was working in a medium I didn’t know and I felt unsure.”
“Ci sono tre motivi per cui accetto una sceneggiatura: il regista, il testo e il personaggio. Se mi affeziono molto al regista, il testo è abbastanza buono e penso di poter fare qualcosa col personaggio, potrei accettarla. Oppure, se mi appassiono molto al personaggio e il testo e il regista sono OK, la accetterò comunque. Finché c'è un aspetto davvero forte e positivo.”
“There’re three reasons I take a screenplay: The director, text and character. If I relate greatly to the director, the text is pretty good and I think I can do something with the character, I might take it. Or, if I can relate greatly to the character and the text and director are OK, I’ll take it, too. As long as there’s one really strong positive in it.”
“Sidney Lumet è un genio nella messa in scena; non ti dice mai una parola; solo dal modo in cui ti fa muovere, la scena prende vita.”
“Lepiej i więcej się uczę, przechodząc przez wszystko samemu, popełniając własne błędy. Niedobrze jest unikać błędów, które mogą nam pokazać coś nowego...”
“Aktorstwo to emocjonalne zapasy.”
“An actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful — my personal life suffers.”
“Dostałem w tyłek od życia w tej samej chwili, w której się urodziłem. Dosłownie! Ktoś w szpitalu dał mi wtedy klapsa.”
“Jeśli na ekranie widzisz człowieka, który zaczyna od zera i pnie się w górę, to siłą rzeczy zaczynasz mu kibicować. Większość z nas też marzy o tym, aby wyrwać się z kolein codzienności i trafić na sam szczyt. Aby zbuntować się przeciwko systemowi.”
“Lubię sport dla czystej zabawy, dla samej radości z gry.”
“Na tym właśnie polega aktorstwo! Gram, udaję kogoś, kim nie jestem. Przeżywam cudze emocje. Poza tym samo życie wywołuje w nas szereg rozmaitych odczuć. To, jak postrzegamy świat, jak postrzegamy związek z drugą osobą, wpływa na nasze doznania. Odkłada się gdzieś tam w psychice. Zadaniem aktora jest odnaleźć te emocje, odgrzebać je i poddać się im lub walczyć z nimi.”
“Zwykle decyzję o tym, czy zagram daną postać, podejmuję na etapie czytania scenariusza. Jeśli podczas lektury przeżyję pewnego rodzaju olśnienie, jeśli nagle w jakimś przebłysku uda mi się ogarnąć skomplikowaną psychikę filmowego bohatera, to wtedy wiem, że to rola dla mnie.”
“Con l'età ho scoperto la leggerezza.”
“di Lawrence Grobel da Playboy Interview, dicembre 1979”
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (1977).
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Pacino starred as a race-car driver in Bobby Deerfield, directed by Sydney Pollack, and received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for his portrayal of the title role
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Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Dog Day Afternoon (1976).
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Enjoyed further success with the release of Dog Day Afternoon, based on the true story of bank robber John Wojtowicz
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Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Actor for Serpico (1974).
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Won Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Serpico (1974).
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Pacino reprised his role as Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II, which was the first sequel to win the Best Picture Oscar; Pacino was nominated a third time for an Oscar, this second nomination for the Corleone rol
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Awarded National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Godfather (1973).
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Awarded National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor for The Godfather (1973).
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Pacino co-starred in Scarecrow with Gene Hackman, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival
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Pacino signed with the talent agency Creative Management Associates (CMA)
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Awarded Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? (1969).
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Awarded Theatre World Award (1969).
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But Pacino received rave reviews and won the Tony Award on April 20, 1969
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Pacino made his Broadway debut in Don Petersen's Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie
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With a brief appearance in Me, Natalie, an independent film starring Patty Duke
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Pacino starred in Israel Horovitz's The Indian Wants the Bronx at the Astor Place Theatre, playing Murph, a street punk
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Pacino spent a season at the Charles Playhouse in Boston, performing in Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing
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Pacino's mother died at the age of 43
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The only child of Sicilian American parents Rose (née Gerardi) and Salvatore Pacino
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Born 1940-04-25.
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