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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

"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."

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

"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."

"Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over."

"Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate."

"The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it."
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"I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience."


"I have adopted clothes from all the projects I'm in. It's really been a while since I've bought anything myself."


"My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure."


"I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere."


"The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music."


"I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan."


"Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do."


"Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up."


"Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere."
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