When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
AL PACINOWomen have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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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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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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