I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
AL PACINOI’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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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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’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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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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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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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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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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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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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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