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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
"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."
"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
"Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over."
"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."
"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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"I know people who go back and check themselves, but it drives me crazy. Everybody wants to look in the mirror and see Cary Grant looking back at them, but that's just not the case."
"When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or John Wayne. We didn't know what the story was about or anything."
"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."
"I'd love to do a Western. A real Western like John Ford used to do. There's not too many of them made, so I don't know if I'll ever get to do that. They're awfully hard movies to make."
"You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost."
"I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?"
"What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it's not entertaining. I left that behind me."
"Usually you're in movies with a lot of dissolves and things, but this was kind of quick, more jarring than usual. I thought it would be fun to be in a movie that's unconventional. Then I met Guy and I liked him. I think he's a good man."
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