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"If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing."
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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."

"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

"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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"Cancer victims who don't accept their fate, who don't learn to live with it, will only destroy what little time they have left."

"Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress."

"I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18."

"I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart."

"Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me."

"I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman."

"I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say."

"I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside."
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