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"Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this."
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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."
"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
"The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it."
"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."
"I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules."
"I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film."
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"But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work."
"Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter."
"I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing."
"I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on."
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