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"I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile."
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"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
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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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"Acting is happy agony."
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"Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate."
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"The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it."
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"There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things."
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"When I get to my deathbed, I don't want to take my last breath and say, Well, how glorious. I've left the world my acting credits. I won't even think that."
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"In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic."
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"The enemy resembles us. Therefore, he needs to be approached not as an assembly of 'targets' to be destroyed one by one; but as a living, intelligent entity capable of acting and reacting."
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"Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting."
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"I'm one of those people who has always been a bridesmaid."
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"I dropped the script in the fireplace, called my agent and said, they can jail me, sue me, but I'm never acting again, unless I can do something worthwhile."
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"The fact is, I never wanted to be a movie star."
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"It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange."
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"Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it."
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"I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face."
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"And even then when you take it, you've got to take it with your whole heart."
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"And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after."
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"One thing is certain. The old Piper Laurie is no more."
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"Back then, everyone was Lana and Rock. No one had ethnic names."
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