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"You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting."
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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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"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 think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
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"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."
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"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting."
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"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."
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"Time seems to stop in certain places."
Time
"I have always watched the rushes, and have learned more because I have done so, because you can have all manner of ideas in your head, but they have to end up on the screen."
Ideas
"I've always loved men."
Men
"Marriage has just never interested me."
Marriage
"To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give."
Feelings
"You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting."
Acting
"Sometimes you like the personal adventure implicit in the making of a film, and sometimes you like your part in a film, and sometimes you like the final result."
Adventure
"I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard."
Work
"I want to keep my attractiveness as long as I can. It has to do with vitality and energy and interest."
Energy
"I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films."
Love
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