I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
AL PACINOWhether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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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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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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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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