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"I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do."
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"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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"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."
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"My acting coach makes the impossible accessible."
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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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"I don't like acting things; I like feeling things."
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"Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court."
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"There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing."
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"I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school."
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"When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street."
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"I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am."
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"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."
Life
"One of the things that binds us as a family is a shared sense of humor."
Family
"I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym."
Right
"Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent."
Quality
"I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it."
Books
"As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away."
Actor
"I'm sure acting is a deeply neurotic thing to do."
Acting
"I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut."
Work
"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."
Act
"Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations."
Saying
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