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"Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare."
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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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"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 think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
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"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
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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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"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
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"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."
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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."
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"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting."
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"There are actors who spend 20 years working and still don't achieve what I've achieved so quickly. So I think my only course of action is to work as hard as I can, not just for the sake of the film, but also to prove to these people that I do have talent."
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"After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films."
Work
"I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening."
Life
"Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of."
Actor
"Absolutely not, because in acting I've found a domain that suits me perfectly. And that is so utterly rare."
Acting
"Zhang Yimou is always going to need young, pretty girls for his films. But I don't really concern myself with what Zhang Yimou's next starlet looks like."
Concern
"Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up."
Opportunity
"Today's China is not in the least shut out from the rest of the world. Trends come to us from all over the world. And the Internet is really developed in China. We get news from all over the world."
Internet
"When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved."
Film
"From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once."
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