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"I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting."
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"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."
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"Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine."
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"It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting."
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"With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting."
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"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
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"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."
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"I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!"
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"I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you."
Acting
"You can't always go by the book, even in comedy."
Comedy
"I think that can happen, that two people can love each other and not be able to get on at all."
Love
"People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do."
People
"I have always tried to work according to what affects me, to a script that I like because it touches me in some way, without deliberately pursuing a commercial career or a particular image."
Work
"I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society."
Love
"No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants."
People
"I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people."
Time
"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."
Performance
"Occasionally I do things against my inner voice, but you really should go for the thing that touches you most-even if you don't quite know why it does."
Voice
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