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"It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting."
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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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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"Acting is happy agony."
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"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."
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"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."
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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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"I don't get acting jobs because of my looks."
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"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"
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"I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise."
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"I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage."
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"It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting."
Acting
"I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it."
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"I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once."
People
"My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom."
Hope
"Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece."
Life
"My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig."
Favorite
"What was frustrating about Armageddon was the time I spent not doing anything. It was a big special effects film, and I wasn't crazy about pretending I was in outer space. It feels ridiculous."
Time
"Bob Altman had this relaxed but serious attitude. Everybody loved him. I wanted him to adopt me."
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"I talked with Quentin about where the character came from, and he told me Kansas City. I don't know how somebody talks from Kansas City, so I made him from New York."
Character
"I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue."
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