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"I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
"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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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."
"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."
"Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over."
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"I was only interested in my scene, and I had to go through thousands and thousands of other scenes. I got my scene and I read it many, many, many, many, many times. That was my research."
"I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things."
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"Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent."
"In the studio system, things are expected of a film. By the first, second, third act, there's a generic language that comes out of the more commercial system."
"When she was younger, my mother was quite committed to Roman Catholicism. But she got disillusioned with it and moved closer to something like Buddhist beliefs near the end of her life."
"I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed."
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