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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."

"Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found."

"Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine."
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"I read the script and try not to bring anything personal into it. I make notes, talk to the director and we decide what kinds of shades should be in the character."

"I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series."

"What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me."

"I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?"

"I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other."
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