There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
AL PACINOThe truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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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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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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