So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
AL PACINOI don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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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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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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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.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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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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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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