I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
AL PACINOLee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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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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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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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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