When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
AL PACINOWhat kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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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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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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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