Al Pacino's book is an eccentric mix of self-reflection and career reframing as one of Hollywood's giants talks about his troubled youth and rise to fame.

A little over a decade ago, the Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino was living in Beverley Hills and discovered he was broke. “I had fifty million dollars and then I had nothing.” Pacino, who had grown up poor in the South Bronx,

SHAPIRO: That's Al Pacino, speaking about his life and his new memoir, "Sonny Boy." And tomorrow on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, we'll hear more from Pacino taking a deeper dive into some of his most famous on-screen roles. (SOUNDBITE OF NINO ROTA'S "SPEAK SOFTLY, LOVE") Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.