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"Acting for me is not that quid pro quo."
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"I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing."
"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
"I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial."
"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
"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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"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."
"I once did a role which I couldn't rehearse in my street clothes, I had to have the character's costume on before I could rehearse it. I just couldn't think as the character unless I looked like him, or I knew that I looked like him."
"All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult."
"I would recommend it to everybody, every now and again you just put a dress on, see what it feels like, because it's, its interesting. A whole complex series of thoughts and feelings assail you as you look at yourself."
"When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like."
"There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them."
"If you have something that you know is important to you and vital to you... then this will perhaps help people understand the importance of confronting it and being brave about it."
"You can't do things for money. You just can't act them. There's gotta be something about the script that you really want to do. I wouldn't do a job if I didn't think I could do the best work I possibly could."
"If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else."
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