I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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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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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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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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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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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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