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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."

"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."

"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."

"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."

"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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"I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives."

"People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves."

"When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight."

"If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational."

"I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her."

"There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life."

"When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset."

"I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic."

"I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it."
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