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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.

Al Pacino

[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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Autobiographical Guess House Kid Oscar Sense Stuff
I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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Actor Hope Intend Movie Perception Star
On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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Give Gonna Lose Man Point Sunday Win
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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Always Early Even Fail Failure Felt Kind Misunderstood On
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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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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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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Around Care Live People Way
I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Come Destroy Longer Unconcious
It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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Easy Eye Fool Hard Heart
I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Actor Home Mother Movie Take Work
And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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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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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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