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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 like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."
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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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"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."
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"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."
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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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"I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure."
Work
"I want to be a big, fleshy voluptuous woman with curves. I want a big bum, but I don't have one."
Want
"I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it."
Heart
"I just love the fact that a man possesses something that a woman can never understand because we don't have the experiences of it and that a woman possesses something that the man doesn't understand because only she possesses it."
Love
"I don't want to go to work and get into bed with someone else, not even Tom Cruise. It's not like I enjoy it."
Work
"I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time."
Success
"Every casting director I've met is a woman."
Woman
"My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now."
Father
"I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before."
Project
"It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world."
Cause
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