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"It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that."
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"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."
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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."
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"There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me."
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"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."
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"I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors."
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"The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover."
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"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."
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"A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered."
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"Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor."
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"An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make."
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"I am more of a New Yorker than ever and just actually, sometimes I fantasize about living somewhere else, where it's maybe not quite so crowded or stressful, blah, blah, blah and after September 11th, I guess I could just not imagine living anywhere else."
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"I love the role of Ripley."
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"There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think."
Society
"I'm no Ripley. I had doubts that I could play her as strongly as she had to be played, but I must say that it was fun exploring that side of myself. Women don't get to do that very often."
Woman
"I love playing an alien."
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"I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film. But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth."
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"My father was always very interested in space. I watch Star Trek and all those things, but I always had a different picture in my mind... maybe closer to Alien. I don't see it in space as much as I do see it in different planets, with each having its own strange characters."
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"I've always thought that a lot of the problems in the world would be solved if a spaceship did arrive, then anyone with one head and two arms and two legs would be your brother! It wouldn't matter where they were from or what they believed or anything. It might be good for us."
Thought
"It was actually a relief for me to play an actor who was scared, who didn't know where everything was, who didn't know what buttons to push, and for me to be able to play all that."
Actor
"I love working quickly. I don't like to do thousands of takes, and I don't want to do thousands of set ups."
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