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"I didn't study acting."
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"I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing."
"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
"I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial."
"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."
"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."
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"I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain."
"If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody."
"I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else."
"I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor."
"But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor."
"I've often wondered, when they've done Of Mice And Men on stage, and I've seen it, how they did that gun thing. I've watched it on stage, but I don't remember it."
"If it's not in New York, let's say it's in St. Louis, then they've got to find a place or get with someone who knows about the work... they've got to find a place like that and do scenes, and then try to get in plays."
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