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"Acting is the perfect idiot's profession."
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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."
"My acting career helped pull me through the rough times."
"Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college."
"When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that."
"But you're right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it."
"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."
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"I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."
"I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky."
"It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession."
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."
"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."
"When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous."
"My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate."
"Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents."
"Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around."
"It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels."
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