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"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it."
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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."

"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 am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

"Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting."

"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."

"I pick up a lot of stuff from them, but I don't think there's any great trick to acting."

"My acting coach makes the impossible accessible."

"Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this."
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"I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue."

"I have a punishing workout regimen. Every day I do 3 minutes on a treadmill, then I lie down, drink a glass of vodka and smoke a cigarette."

"Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought."

"Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script."
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