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"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."
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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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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting."
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"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
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"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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"But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting."
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"When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy."
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"I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling."
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"In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic."
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"I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do."
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"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."
Acting
"But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds."
Behavior
"Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me."
Character
"Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have."
Imagination
"To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves."
People
"I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day."
Day
"I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed."
Beauty
"If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man."
Life
"The only greatness for man is immortality."
Greatness
"There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning."
World
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