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"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."
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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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"People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing."
"I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along."
"I believe some people in this business suffer from fame because they behave in a famous fashion."
"I don't feel ashamed of my wife's political background, and I don't think she should either. I feel that the people who administered the North of Ireland for the last 20 years should be ashamed. There you are."
"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"
"I am afraid of death, scared by it. I already don't know whether I exist or not. So dying really terrifies me."
"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
"That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere."
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