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"Acting for me is not that quid pro quo."
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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
"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."
"You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom."
"Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take."
"I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously."
"It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting."
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"If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"When you're an actor you don't really know what you have to do until you see what you look like."
"All good actors are easy to work with. It's the ones that aren't very good who tend to be very difficult."
"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."
"You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable."
"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."
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