12 Actors Who Have Basically Just Become Cartoon Characters

9. Al Pacino

Much like Malcolm McDowell's Wikipedia editors, those responsible for compiling Al Pacino's IMDB biography seem to have struggled to find words for his acting style, and eventually settled on "forceful dramatic presentation". In other words, Pacino pretty much gave up on understated with The Godfather and proceeded to chew the scenery like there was no tomorrow in every subsequent film. He has no indoor voice either, which is useful for big monologues such as the speech which forms the keystone of his Oscar-winning performance in 1992's Scent of a Woman. The clip below is from the 1979 courtroom drama ...And Justice for All, in which Pacino plays a morally righteous but hot-tempered defence attorney. It's a pretty famous scene in which Pacino just throws caution to the wind and decides to deafen the extras and presumably most of the cast and crew. It can't be transcribed without excessive punctuation and capitalisation, so please, watch it instead.