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"You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom."
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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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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
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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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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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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 is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found."
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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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"You have to do real acting, not just do a voice."
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"But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting."
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"I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills."
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"Well, I've been to Iraq twice now. I was in Baghdad in June and then north of Baghdad in November."
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"I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid."
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"I study to learn, to be an educated person."
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"Sometimes you're in great demand. Then suddenly your career hits the breaks."
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"I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there."
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"Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them."
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"It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins."
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"You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom."
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"I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade."
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