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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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"My mother gave me singing lessons; that was totally painful, because I couldn't do what she wanted to hear. She used to say: there's more there, there's more voice but I just didn't want to give it to her."
Mother
"It was always acting, singing and dancing that I loved."
Acting
"We give you this story. It is for the audience to be moved and gut wrenched, not us. It isn't as if we don't go through those real feeling and it isn't as if I don't cry three or four times a night. I usually do."
Feelings
"We do a lot of shows for young people who have probably never been to the theater before and they are learning about the Holocaust, which unhappily, many of them do not know about."
People
"I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream."
Dream
"Talking about auditions, you never know what anyone else is thinking."
Talking
"The play is one of the very few pieces of great dramatic and comic writing that I have read in a long, long time. I was drawn to it because of the power of the writing, which gives me the actor a chance to explore many facets of myself."
Power
"I didn't want to do anything my mother wanted me to do so surely I wasn't going to sing for her."
Mother
"The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America."
God
"Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character."
Life
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