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"I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing."
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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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"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
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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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"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."
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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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"My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom."
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"I want to make smart television."
Television
"I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since."
Actor
"I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing."
Acting
"If anything, I want to bring television back up to where it will entertain and engage a gamer."
Television
"People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success."
Success
"I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor."
Actor
"When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die."
Art
"People are either enamored with me or wonder if they can take me."
People
"I mean, I've been in a hundred and fifty films; I don't want to just sit around and talk about things."
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