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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

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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After Anybody Film Less Movie Onstage Over Together Until You
Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Challenge Either Heal Individual Team
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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Enjoy Frank Help Instance Like Play Real Script Serpico
The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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Act Demand Different Experience More Stage Through
I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Admire Always Comedian Myself People Think
[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
Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Alter Always Equal Importance Issue Onstage Problem Sensibility Sensitive Women Working
I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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Assemble Care Fact Gun Learn Scent Woman
I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Along Artist Great Paint People Remind Sense Something
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Act Always Even Lie Truth
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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Attach Encourage Interest Project Studio
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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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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Alone Director Forgot Represent Stand Surf Wait
I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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Actor Disappointment Expect Great Opportunity Think Too
I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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Actors Character Everything Perceive Play Relation Seen Thing World
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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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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