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

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"I always like having kid energy around. I think it's good for a movie, even when you're doing dramatic stuff."

"As we're bombarded with the imagery that we are and now, post 9-11, it's hard not to get hardened by the world and the amount of violence that's allowed to be shown to kids these days."
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