I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
Al Pacino Quotes
My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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| Birth: | 25th April, 1940 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
About
Alfredo James Pacino is an American film and stage actor and director. He is famous for playing mobsters, including Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy and Tony Montana in Scarface, though he has also appeared several times on the other side of the law as a police officer, a detective and a lawyer. His role as Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman won him the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1992 after receiving seven previous Oscar nominations, one of them being in the same year. He made his feature film debut in the 1969 film Me, Natalie in a minor supporting role, before playing the leading role in the 1971 drama The Panic in Needle Park. In addition to a career in film, he has also enjoyed a successful career on stage, winning Tony Awards for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? and The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel. A longtime fan of Shakespeare, he made his directorial debut with Looking for Richard, a quasi-documentary on the play Richard III. Pacino has received numerous lifetime achievement awards, including one from the American Film Institute. He is a method actor, taught mainly by Lee Strasberg and Charles Laughton at the Actors Studio in New York. Although he has never married, Pacino has had several relationships with actresses and has three children.
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