I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
AL PACINOLarry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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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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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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