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Al Pacino Biography

Alfredo James Pacino (/pəˈtʃiːnoʊ/; born April 25, 1940) is an American actor and filmmaker. Pacino has had a career spanning over five decades, 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 is also one of few performers to have won a competitive Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony Award for acting, dubbed the "Triple Crown of Acting".

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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.

Baby, Feeling, Feelings, Paper, Poem, Threw

I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, "No, I'm a Pacino. That's my name. " I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she's adjusted so marvelously.

Daughter, Names, Oldest, Pacino, School, Treat

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp. . . Then I'd find another one.

Pedestal, Way, Used

It's not personal, it's strictly business

Business, Personal, Strictly

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.

Live, People, Ride, Way, Way To Live, Who Cares

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface. '

Inspirational, Play, Violent, Scarface, Plays

Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.

Bad, Big, Bigs, Payday, Scripts, Show

Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.

Believe, Comedy, Comic, People, Saws

Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

Acting, Childish, Diabolical, Drab, Hard Work, Joyful

It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

Compromise, Grobel, Help, Helping, Lines, Writing

I'm always on a red carpet. . . the other day I thought, this ain't bad. You can meet people on it.

Bad, Carpet, People, Red

[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.

Audience, Salomaybe, Vision, World

I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a play. In film, there's always a certain sense of control, of holding back. The stage is different ; there's more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.

Back, Demand, Different, Holding, Play, Stage

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

Actor, Actors, Hope, Perception, Star, Stars

An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.

Actor, Actors, Asked, Sitting, Waiting

I used to think of myself as a comedian. I've always admired comedians. Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There's a liberation in that.

Admired, Comedian, Humor, People, Thinking

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.

Confused, Corner, Dope, Real

When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story, the story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I'm struggling with - my own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.

Commitment, Journey, Story, Struggle, Thing, Things

When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?

Audience, Mean, Opportunity, See, Trying

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.

Army, College, Dad, Mother, Raised, War

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