It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
AL PACINOHere in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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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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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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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 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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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Without coffee something’s missing
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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