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"To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible."
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"The purpose of work is to labor and invest time in your gift."

"Bolts work on nuts; pens work on paper. But you must work on yourself. Go, get working!"

"Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when I do it. And I don't think you could do this."

"And uh, I'm glad that I still have my hands and my eyes to work with."

"In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis."
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"Successful model? That's a myth. The year I modeled was the most painful year of my life. Editors would always talk to you in the third person as though you were merely a piece of merchandise."

"It comes down to something really simple: Can I visualize myself playing those scenes? If that happens, then I know that I will probably end up doing it."

"To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership."

"Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable."

"Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional."

"We are not the originators of the story. I think it's actually the opposite when you're an actor. You're telling somebody else's story."

"At a certain age, death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life."
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