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.
AL PACINOLarry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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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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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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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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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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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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