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A lot of great people have seen people portray them and loathed them. But I did my best and I don't think there is anything to be offended at.
Here is Mike Wallace, who is visible to the public, and I have been watching him since the early '50s. Smoking up a storm and insulting his guests and being absolutely wonderfully evil and charming too.
I couldn't believe when I first got a fan letter from Al Pacino, it was unreal.
I steered clear of all those political intrigues, particularly when you're having to play a character. So I have to shut my eyes and ears to that.
I want to paint Montreal as a rather fantastic city, which it was, because nobody knows today what it was like. And I'm one of the last survivors, or rapidly becoming one.
I was going to do Volpone, because I want to try all the outrageous, funny clown parts. It's hopeless, it's too unwieldy. It doesn't work.
I would rather not know about how one gets parts in movies these days.
I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.
I've written about the early Montreal days, which I knew very well. I knew every bar-there were about 345 of them-so I have some damn good stories to tell.
In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.
It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.
It is so fashionable-this topic. People are dropping like flies as we speak. I think it will help scare people away from cigarettes.
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license.
My publisher in New York-Knopf, which is pretty damn good-keeps telling me, Get out of Canada as fast as you can.
Oh, all right, I'll do King Lear.
The drama critic for The Montreal Gazette gave me a good review in a high-school production of Pride and Prejudice. It went to my head.
The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.
The part of Mike Wallace drew me to the movie because I thought, what an outrageous part to play.
They realized I was alive again, even though I was playing an old, dying sop.
Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.