“You do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted.”
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“You do get very tired sometimes, when you're sitting around for hours in movies. You get depleted.”
“Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.”
“In America most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.”
“Most everybody who's Italian is half Italian. Except me. I'm all Italian. I'm mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.”
“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, I could...”
“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. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a f...”
“I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type.”
“I used to wear disguises, like hats and false beards, just to walk around and avoid attention.”
“I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.”
“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.”
“Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.”
“Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until the last two or three performances when I even understand certain things. In the old days...”
“My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.”
“I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.”
“There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.”
“Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don't believe me when I tell them. That's how I saw myself, in comedy.”
“I'm so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.”
“The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I'm talking about.”
“My grandmother always came to my shows. She was always concerned about the way I dressed - even later on, when I was well known and I supported her.”