- You could call this weekend with Joey.
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What's the character that stuck with you the most?
You know the people just see you on the street.
You're always that guy to them.
- It depends on who the people are.
If they're African American,
it's gonna be The Matrix
or Bad Boys.
If they're college kids, it's going to be
Memento.
If they're
boomers
in the tri-state area,
it's gonna be Sopranos.
So it, it depends, it certainly depends.
Even today, a lot of people know me by name now,
like yesterday I was in New Canaan
and guy came up to me and he said,
"are you Joey Pants?" And I said," yeah."
And the wife started saying,
"Joey Pants I can't believe it."
And then another couple said,
"I'm so glad you said hello to, we afraid to."
and I said, "listen, if you ever see somebody you admire
don't you ever hesitate to say hello, you're our customers
we love hearing this."
- That's exactly right.
Without you, there's nothing.
- Right.
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You were just a moment ago describing
a situation where it gives you the feeling of like hanging
on a ledge and the fact that you've never seen anything.
When you say that we know what you mean,
what are you seeing?
- Okay, for me, if I'm gonna be hanging on a ledge let's say
like a deck off an apartment.
You know that way they have a little balcony
and you go out there for a cigarette or whatever.
And then there's a wall that's maybe about this high.
So I can imagine myself on the other side of the wall,
and there was like a little step right there.
And so maybe I'm hanging on to the top
or I slip and I can grab just a step just with my fingers.
To me, that's what it is.
- Yeah now what's the image,
What do you see in your mind's eye?
Do you have a mind's eye?
- No, I really don't have a mind's eye.
I imagine what I think it's gonna be
and what it's gonna look like.
But as far as how things look for you, I have no idea.
- Like you said, like, if I tell you the sky is blue,
what color is blue for you?
- I don't know.
It doesn't really mean anything.
Like I get how the sky can be blue
and I get how a sweater can be blue
and how your eyes can be blue,
but they're all different kinds of blue.
And that's what I don't understand.
It's weird.
- Fascinating.
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- Now I gotta go back to your dyslexia for a second.
'Cause you talk about being able to memorize all these
scripts and things like this.
You must have great memorization techniques.
- Because of the style in which I have to learn.
And in terms of comprehension, I never memorized anything.
You know, I would the scene over again and again,
and I would read the scene and read it and read it.
The trick is, and a lot of people think
I don't know my lines.
But the trick is not knowing them
well enough.
If you know your lines cold,
then the audience knows you know,
and that's no good,
real life isn't the words
that just flowing out of your mouth.
Real life
suggests
that is your thought.
Or sometimes you struggle like I am right now.
And so you can't learn them that well.
- We're talking about the blind experience and stuff
and trying to explain it to you and everything.
So let me ask you, what do you look like?
- I'm bald, I have blue eyes, but they're blue yeah.
I'm fully,
my head shaved.
can I cross and then feel it?
Hold on I gotta get untangled.
Here I come.
Look at you know, see but that's one of those things
- Feel my face do I still look like in the movies.
- Like we do in the movies like we do in the movies.?
- Yeah.
- Look at you.
I'm not used to doing this to a guy, Joe.
I gotta be honest with it.
- But I got skin soft as
(cross talk)
Feel my hand.
- You have nice skin.
Put your hand up like this for me, do like this let me see.
Wow, you got a little ring, a couple of rings very nice.
Look at you.
Have you ever had any plastic surgery?
- Yes I had.
I had after I did risky business,
I remember the two shot I did with Tom Cruise
when we were walking down his garden
and looking at each other,
I realized, and Tom's got a pretty healthy nose.
Well, mine just eclipsed his and I said,
I gotta do something about that nose.
No wonder I'm playing bad guys.
So I had my nose reduced
and in fact next month I make my last payment
and I actually owned my nose.
So I did that and when I was doing,
thank you very much.
When I was doing The Matrix,
They put me in a gym
and they wanted me to get all pumped up.
But I had all of this fat around that I couldn't get rid of.
So, I had liposuction done.
And and then I sent the bill to Warner Bros.
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You know, so it was Joe Pantolion
(beep)
I was cruel to people because they called me Ralphie.
I think he might even be upset with me
because I turned down the part in Batman.