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 PACINOThere has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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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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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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 never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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