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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting."
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"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
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"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."
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"But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting."
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"I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do."
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"I always wanted to go into acting."
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"Acting is what happens on the way."
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"In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching."
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"I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to be a good guy, a bad guy, a victim, an abuser. There are all kinds of people in the world, and playing them is what acting is all about."
Work
"As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive."
Actor
"There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content."
Content
"I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have six houses and a plane, it's just about a number. It's never been anything I understood."
Money
"There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep."
Actor
"I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50."
Love
"I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else."
Character
"It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous."
Old
"I don't watch the movies I make, so I haven't seen 'Footloose' since it came out. You see this young, hungry actor, it's pretty fun. I was the only one they screen tested. It was an attempt by the director and producer to talk the head of the studio into hiring me because they didn't want me."
Movies
"I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance."
Performance
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