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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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"Acting is happy agony."
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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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"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."
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"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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"Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?"
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"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."
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"It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust."
Trust
"Then I left school at 16 and worked in Perth Repertory Theatre, which was quite nearby where I lived. And I worked there for about six or seven months, as part of the stage crew."
Months
"No, no I'm not, no, but I just think... when people are naked it tells you a lot about their relationships."
People
"I've played in pipe bands in Scotland, and I've always played guitars and drums and stuff."
Scotland
"As a child I was taken to the pantomime or the theatre and I would always, always fall in love with somebody on the stage. And want to have sex with them."
Love
"If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place."
Life
"I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber."
Dance
"From there I did a one year theatre acting course in Fife, and then three years of drama school in London."
Acting
"It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted."
Spirit
"A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned."
Work
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