You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
AL PACINODid you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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