Lawrence Grobel > Quotes

“Нека ти кажа какво е анонимността за един актьор. За мен е много важна. Затова се дърпам толкова много от интервюта.Когато един път научиш лични неща за един актьор, започваш да разгадаваш работата му, докато я наблюдаваш.
... Дори когато ходя на театър, у мен има желание да не отивам зад кулисите.Просто защото искам да запазя в съзнанието си само видяното. Не искам да разбивам илюзията.”
― Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino

“Ако ти е писано да ходиш по опъната жица, това и правиш. Няма да си нарисуваш линия върху пода я. Рано или късно се качваш там горе, на високото.”
― Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino

“So I can only conclude that American democracy inherently does not want good leadership. We always passed over the very great men we had like Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, Henry Clay, John Fremont, and the people after the Civil War like Carl Shurz. We pass them up because we don’t want first-class men in that position, we want somebody who is a stupid bum like us. We’re afraid of good leadership until a time of crisis,”
― Lawrence Grobel, Conversations with Michener

“I shall prepare a face to meet the faces that I meet.”
― Lawrence Grobel, Conversations with Brando

“It’s pathetic. It’s a bottomless pit. A barrel that has no floor. He must be a man who has an ever-crumbling estimation of himself. He’s constantly filling himself up.”
― Lawrence Grobel, Conversations with Brando

“Everybody has their field. My field is the muktiple murderer.”
― Lawrence Grobel

“At one point in one’s life you get a sense of your own mortality. You view death in a certain way. From that point on you look at your fellow man with a new understanding. I have some feelings for it now. They say it happens in your mid-thirties. Sometimes I have a fantasy of my corpse being carried around in a box, people mourning me. Saying, “We shouldn’t have treated him so badly.”
― Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino: In Conversation with Lawrence Grobel

“Why one reads is very important. If you don’t have a good reason, if it’s just for escape, that’s all right, it’s like taking junk, it’s meaningless. It’s kind of an insult to yourself. Like modern conversation—it’s used to keep people away from one another, because people don’t feel assaulted by conversation so much as silence. People have to make conversation in order to fill up this void. Void is terrifying to most people. We can’t have a direct confrontation with somebody in silence—because what you’re really having is a full and more meaningful confrontation. It”
― Lawrence Grobel, Conversations with Brando

“The relationships that we have with writers are quite a thing; they’re different from the ones we have with actors or musicians or composers or politicians. Everything for me is the writer; without him, I don’t exist. So he is first. The actor gets all the fame and glory, but I don’t know about endurance.”
― Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino: In Conversation with Lawrence Grobel

“Fame is the perversion of the natural instinct for validation and attention.

It's kind of simple to assess something if you allow it to happen. It's when the ego and greed get in the way that it's harder to assess what the situation is.”
― Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino

“What about golf? It’s something else. It has its own unique niche in society. The gala country club life. It’s a delightful game for elderly executives or even young executives who want to make big deals about selling manufactured products. I can’t take it seriously. Deep-sea”
― Lawrence Grobel, Conversations with Michener

“If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.”
― Lawrence Grobel, Conversations With Capote

“Everybody has their field. My field is the multiple murderer.”
― Lawrence Grobel, Conversations With Capote

“Reading about Shelley and Byron I get awfully fed up, realizing that these men never did a day’s work in their lives; they lived off the system, were free to travel all around Europe with entourages if necessary, never wrote about a guy earning a living. That is not the world I knew, that is not the world I want to be a part of, and by and large it’s not a world I’m interested in. How”
― Lawrence Grobel, Conversations with Michener