“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
AL PACINOI destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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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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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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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.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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