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It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.
Jason Patric
Help
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Someone
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Find
Pacino's always played the suffering prince. I just find that interesting.
Jason Patric
Find
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Suffering
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Played
Everybody acts like they're in a movie in most movies. That's why they stink.
Jason Patric
Movies
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Why
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Everybody
I don't find movies interesting. I just want to do the movies that made me interested in getting into movies, and they're few and far between.
Jason Patric
Movies
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Made
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Find
I don't have a problem with fame. I got into this business intending to be very successful, but I wanted it to be at my price.
Jason Patric
Business
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Successful
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Problem
I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.
Jason Patric
Themselves
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Actor
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Director
I have a problem with the blatant celebrity exhibitionism that happens in this business and being sold purely as a brand.
Jason Patric
Business
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Problem
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Happens
I have all this time between projects, and I'm not so sure that's a healthy thing. It's scary, because at 36 I'm woefully unqualified for anything else.
Jason Patric
Time
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Else
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Between
I made three movies in 1995 and I was unhappy with all of them: Sleepers, Incognito, and Speed 2.
Jason Patric
Movies
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Made
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Unhappy
I never turned down a movie because they wouldn't give me enough money.
Jason Patric
Money
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Down
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Give
I really tried to make movies I wanted to see. I thought that if I was good enough, somebody would always need me.
Jason Patric
Good
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Movies
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Thought
I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.
Jason Patric
Movies
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Character
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Real
I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game.
Jason Patric
Best
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Game
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Made
I try to stay under the radar.
Jason Patric
Try
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Stay
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Radar
I was making a lot of independent movies before the independent movement.
Jason Patric
Movies
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Before
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Making
I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If I'd wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five of them while it was in the can. It wasn't worth it to me. That was just an innocuous, boring movie.
Jason Patric
Movies
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Boring
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Wanted
If I was coming into the business today, I wouldn't be in it. Knowing what I know, absolutely not.
Jason Patric
Business
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Today
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Knowing
It's easy to be a movie star. The shoes are already there. They just put you in the shoes.
Jason Patric
Put
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Easy
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Shoes
Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.
Jason Patric
Touch
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Films
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Hollywood
Now, being on the cover of Vanity Fair is as important as being in great movies. The lines are very, very blurred.
Jason Patric
Great
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Movies
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Important
Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn't like it.
Jason Patric
Training
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Movie
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Hollywood
When actors talk about research, they're just patting themselves on the back.
Jason Patric
Talk
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Themselves
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Research
When you look at some of the most respected actors there are and the crap that they're in... it didn't used to be that way.
Jason Patric
Used
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Crap
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Respected
You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.
Jason Patric
Good
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Passion
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Against
You know how many movies it took Tom Cruise before he was making 5, 6 million dollars? It probably took a billion dollars in box office.
Jason Patric
Movies
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Before
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Making
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Biography
Nationality:
American
Type:
Actor
Born:
June 27
, 1966
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