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"You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself."
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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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"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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"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting."
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"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."
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"Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found."
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"Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core."
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"But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America."
Art
"You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were."
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"You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself."
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"And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love."
Love
"And then a great thing in my life was going to India."
Life
"A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic."
Mind
"But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating."
Family
"Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts."
Art
"The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn't mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him."
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"Sex is energy."
Sex
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