Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
AL PACINOYou’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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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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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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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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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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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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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, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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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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