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"Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene."
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"Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other."
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"In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly."
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"Well I think people think sex is controversial. Not always, but certainly it's something to be discussed."
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"And the Institute sent me a little film footage of Kinsey himself preparing to do an interview for television to talk about his work, so that was quite valuable for me."
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"I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now."
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"Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man."
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"And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life."
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"I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday."
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"In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know?"
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"I always wanted to be a cowboy, and Jedi Knights are basically cowboys in space, right?"
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"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."
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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
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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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"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."
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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
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"I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by."
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"I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it."
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"I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past."
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"Acting is very start and stop."
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"You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom."
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