I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
AL PACINOI’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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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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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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