Al Pacino Reveals The Surprising Reason He Never Takes Memorabilia From His Movie Sets (Exclusive)

The actor and author of the new memoir ‘Sonny Boy’ tells PEOPLE that he’s only left with a homemade Oscar that fans gave him when he was passed over for ‘Scarface.’

In his memory Sonny BoyAl Pacino makes it clear that he is no rat. Turns out he’s not a pack rat either.

Despite starring in some of the most acclaimed and iconic films of recent decades, The Godfather, Scarface i Dog day afternoonto name a few — Pacino tells PEOPLE that he’s not one to take memories from a set.

Not even Tony Montana is white Scarface dress or anything from the godfather franchise? no

“I’ll probably lose them,” Pacino admits, explaining his thinking. “For a long time, I moved from place to place. I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.” Pacino has been splitting his time between New York and California for some time now.

The only thing he saved? A homemade Oscar trophy fans made for him after ’83 Scarface was rejected by the Academy Awards.

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Pacino was acting in a David Mamet production American buffalo in San Francisco, and a group of fans came to see him after a matinee.

“It was right when the awards were coming out, the Oscars, and I wasn’t nominated,” Pacino recalls. “So the fans out there, they used to wait for me when I finished a show. They all came together and gave me this big Oscar. I thought, ‘Oh my God’. I still have it at my house.”

“It was huge, proportionally huge compared to the actual Oscar. You know what I’m saying? So I was surprised by that. I was very happy with that,” he continues.

At the moment Scarface came out, Pacino had been nominated for five Academy Awards but never won. He took home the Best Actor trophy for his performance in 1992 scent of woman surpassing Clint Eastwood (unforgivable), Robert Downey Jr. (Chaplin), Denzel Washington (Malcolm X) and Stephen Rea (The Crying Game).

Pacino also writes about this moment sonny boy one of the many personal behind-the-scenes stories he shares from his six-decade career history.

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The actor tells PEOPLE that he never thought he would write a memoir, but that he had come close several times over the past decade and finally decided to put pen to page so that his loved ones would know his story.

When he started thinking about his past, the stories “just started coming out,” he says, “and they went all over the place.”

Pacino says, “At least in my opinion, I’ve had a pretty big life.”

Sonny Boy It’s out on October 15th from Penguin Press and is available for pre-order now, wherever books are sold.

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