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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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"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 am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
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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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"I do find acting cathartic."
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"Acting is happy agony."
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"The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and 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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"I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules."
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"I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film."
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"I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail."
Want
"I just love getting dirty."
Love
"Sometimes I think they should set up an asylum for people like that... a whole slew of paparazzi defending their positions."
People
"I could not understand why Meryl Streep, for example, is allowed to work while pregnant and I'm not."
Work
"My mother gave me a sense of independence, a sense of total confidence that we could do whatever it was we set out to do. That's how we were raised."
Mother
"No nude scenes. No sex-symbol parts. I want people to recognize me for my work, not just for being pretty."
Work
"If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day."
Day
"After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland."
Choice
"Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it."
Faith
"My favorite designers are Levi Strauss and Fruit of the Loom."
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