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"I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing."
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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."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"Acting is happy agony."
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"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."
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"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."
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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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"I don't get acting jobs because of my looks."
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"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"
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"I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise."
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"I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage."
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"With Animal Factory you'd think that because it's mostly interiors, you could shoot it anywhere. So we shot this in Philadelphia, and we had the cooperation of the prison system."
Cooperation
"It wasn't until my senior year in high school that I started acting."
Acting
"I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it."
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"I usually get freaked out if I'm in a situation where a lot of people recognise me at once."
People
"In the beginning, it wasn't even a question of deciding I'm going to do independent film and not commercial films - I wasn't being offered any commercial films, and there wasn't an independent scene."
Beginning
"My greatest hope was to get discovered as a comedian and get on a sitcom."
Hope
"I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way."
Society
"I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years."
Years
"Communication is the key, and it's one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors."
Actor
"Trees Lounge is based on my own life. Both my parents like the movie. My father, of course, thinks it's a masterpiece."
Life
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