I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
AL PACINOJamie 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’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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That 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 wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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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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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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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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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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