If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
AL PACINOThat was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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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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Without coffee something’s missing
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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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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All I am is what I’m going after.
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