"I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good."

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"I like anything that is like an obstruction, something that I have to act through is good."

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

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"It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment."

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"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"

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"I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country."

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"If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do."

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"You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl."

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"Four hours of makeup, and then an hour to take it off. It's tiring. I go in, I get picked up at two-thirty in the morning, I get there at three. I wait four hours, go through it, ready to work at seven, work all day long for twelve hours, and get it taken off for an hours, go home and go to sleep, and do the same thing again."

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"But the way that we've got it organized in our family, we try not to work at the same time, so I'm just now starting to look around. I think I'd like to do a film."

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"I don't really worry about being typecast much. I mean, everyone in Hollywood is typecast to a degree."

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"It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with."

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"The only way to silence a room that's laughing at you is to sort of take over."

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"I just pick the best roles that are left over, and they usually aren't the heterosexual, leading-man, non-drug-addict parts. And once you get into doing them, people know you do them."

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"I always think change is important in a character. The most dynamic choices that you can make for a character are always the best ones."

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