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"It's an acting job - acting natural."
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"Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene."
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"When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma."
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"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."
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"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."
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"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it."
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"Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning."
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"And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."
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"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."
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"I don't like acting things; I like feeling things."
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"All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away."
Desire
"There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother."
Mother
"The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test."
Love
"As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director."
Acting
"When you feel so strongly about something and other people feel equally strongly, you have to feel stronger about it in order to succeed."
People
"I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it."
People
"My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport."
Life
"Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice."
Hunger
"The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly."
Actor
"Acting for me is not a bad habit like smoking that I must make an effort to quit. I love acting; I love directing."
Love
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