"Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting."

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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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"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."

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"Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing."

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"I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey."

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"To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play."

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"The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles."

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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."

"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."

"I don't get acting jobs because of my looks."

"I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise."

"A musical would be fantastic. The soundtrack would be great and I'd like to do acting."

"Acting is acting."

"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"

"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."

"It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes."

"Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing."

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"I am heartbroken that this movie would cause anyone pain. It should be a source of joy. The story is a metaphor about how we try to stay in our own little bubbles, we don't let life in, we don't take the journey."

"To me, getting notes, honing the part, and refining the role is the real fun of the play."

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"It's so funny whenever things come full circle."

"The first thing I ask when I'm offered a part is, Who's the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles."

"I keep both of my Tonys on my mantle. They're in front of a mirror so if you look at just the right angle, it looks like I have four!"

"Working with a great director is like getting a master class in acting."