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"I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you."
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"My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner."
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"I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game."
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"Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class."
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"Acting for me is not that quid pro quo."
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"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."
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"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."
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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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"I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked."
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"To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together."
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"At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again."
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"I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you."
Acting
"You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are."
Time
"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
"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
"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'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
"An emotional performance is usually more instinctive to an actor."
Performance
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