The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
AL PACINOI always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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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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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 destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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 used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Whether 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 learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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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 wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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