Al Pacino Net Worth

Al Pacino's Quotes

• 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.
• I can't say I've been sober though. I don't like that word. What does it mean? 'Sober! He's very sober'.
• There are times when I have a temperament. Yes, my temperament is there ... but I hope I'm gentle. Yes, I think I am.
• When I try to explain anything I always end up trying to be right usually, but not truthful necessarily. Trying to give the right answer or what I think is the right answer. It's a human instinct. You try to be as clever as you can be. You're trying to come off like you really know what the hell's going on, when you don't!
• I'm single and I don't particularly like it. I'm certainly the kind of person who prefers ... it ... it ... It's good to have someone in your life that you're going through this thing with. It's good. That's a thing in life that I aspire to.

Interesting Facts about Al Pacino

1. Ranked #4 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. [October 1997]
2. Was arrested, charged with carrying a concealed weapon. [January 1961]
3. Son of Sal Pacino (insurance agent) and Rose (nee Gerardi) Pacino; his maternal grandparents originate from Corleone, Sicily. His paternal grandparents originate from San Fratello, Sicily. Aside from his grandparents being from Corleone in Sicily, his real name "Alfredo" and childhood nickname "Sonny" are also indirect references to the names of his siblings in his breakthrough movie "The Godfather" (Fredo and Sonny).
4. Turned down the role of Ted Kramer in Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), which went to Dustin Hoffman.
5. Turned down the role of Han Solo in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), which went to Harrison Ford.
6. Turned down the lead role of Roy Neary in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), which went to Richard Dreyfuss.
7. Turned down Apocalypse Now (1979), Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Pretty Woman (1990) and Crimson Tide (1995).
8. Was offered the role of Harvey Dent / Two-Face on Batman: The Animated Series (1992), which went to Richard Moll.
9. Originally asked for $7 million for The Godfather: Part III (1990), a figure that so enraged director Francis Ford Coppola that he threatened to write a new script that opened with Michael Corleone's funeral. Pacino settled for $5 million.
10. Francis Ford Coppola asked Pacino to play Captain Willard in his film Apocalypse Now (1979). Pacino politely turned down the offer, saying he would "do anything" for Francis but he "wouldn't go to war with him!".
11. Stopped a two-pack-a-day smoking habit to protect his voice (1994). In the mid-1980s, he had been smoking four packs of cigarettes a day. He now only occasionally smokes herbal cigarettes.
12. Pacino was so much into character (playing a plain-clothes New York City policeman) while filming Serpico (1973) he actually pulled over and threatened to arrest a truck driver for exhaust pollution.
13. Larry King considers Pacino's appearance on his show Larry King Live (1985) in November 1996 as one of his personal all-time favorite interviews.
14. Is one of the few Hollywood stars who has never married.
15. Despite the fact that he starred in "The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui" for Off-Broadway scale pay (the minimum salary allowed by Actor's Equity), the production had the highest ticket price in Off-Broadway history at $100 per ticket.
16. Is one of twelve actors to have been nominated for both a Supporting and Lead Acting Academy Award in the same year. The other ten are Barry Fitzgerald Fay Bainter, Teresa Wright, Jessica Lange, Sigourney Weaver, Emma Thompson, Holly Hunter, Julianne Moore, Jamie Foxx, Cate Blanchett and Scarlett Johansson. Pacino was the second male actor, after Fitzgerald, to have been nominated for both a Best Supporting Actor and a Best Actor Oscar in the same year; the third is Foxx, who was nominated for Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor in 2005.
17. Won two Tony Awards: as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for "Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?" (1969) and as Best Actor (Play) for "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel" (1977).
18. Won his first Academy Award twenty-one years after his first nomination.
19. He and Chris Sarandon improvised their scene on the phone in the film Dog Day Afternoon (1975).
20. Studied at the Herbert Berghof (HB) Studio (HB Studio), where he met acting teacher Charlie Laughton (not to be confused with Charles Laughton), who became his mentor and best friend.