Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
AL PACINOActually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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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 do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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