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"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."
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"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."
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"I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am."
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"And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no."
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"Forget acting. It's all about rock 'n' roll."
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"I always enjoyed writing. I did playlets in high school, I did radio shows in college. That's one of the reasons I went down to Second City, because you could do acting and writing."
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"My acting career helped pull me through the rough times."
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"Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro."
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"Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college."
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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 would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't."
Advice
"All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away."
Desire
"Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice."
Hunger
"I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it."
People
"The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly."
Actor
"My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport."
Life
"All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents."
Acting
"How I was raised is what I am today."
Today
"When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed."
People
"The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test."
Love
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