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"Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere."
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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."

"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."

"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."

"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."
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"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."

"I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving."

"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'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do."

"Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?"

"I don't know what my favorite film of mine is... But I think the most important film I was in was 'Glory'."

"I feel fine, I don't care who the director is. All you have to do is know what your doing - all of us - everybody in the business - that's all you ask anyone - you know your job, I know mine, let's go do it."

"It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing."
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