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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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"I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good."
People
"I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be."
Home
"Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury."
Idea
"As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive."
Acting
"I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience."
Men
"Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right."
Acting
"I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters."
Life
"Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability."
Men
"Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is."
Months
"I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science."
Science
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