I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
AL PACINOI don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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 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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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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