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Mark Ruffalo

"I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."

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Donna Grant

"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."

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Donna Grant

"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."

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Donna Grant

"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."

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Donna Grant

"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."

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Donna Grant

"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."

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Mark Ruffalo
"I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher."

Acting

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Mark Ruffalo
"But, the relationships that I see work - As long as they're telling the truth, and saying the things that you don't ever want to have to say to another human being."

Work

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Mark Ruffalo
"We'll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex."

Sex

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Mark Ruffalo
"I became an actor so I didn't have to be myself."

Actor

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Mark Ruffalo
"My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave."

Belief

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Mark Ruffalo
"I was bartending for a long time and going on auditions and was constantly being rebuffed."

Time

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Mark Ruffalo
"My personal belief is that you carry your own water in a relationship. If you see a girl and you think she's hot, that's a very human reaction, but you don't go and tell your spouse that, you know? So in one way it's how you behave."

Belief

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Mark Ruffalo
"I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit."

Love

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Mark Ruffalo
"I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination."

Imagination

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Mark Ruffalo
"Literally, I think I've quit acting three or four times, only for a few days. Maybe for a few weeks."

Acting

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