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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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"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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"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."
"Earlier, I used to charge territories instead of my fees as an actor, but I realised it was better to keep the two apart. Now, I take my fees in cash, for acting, and keep the distribution thing separate."
"The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employees of his had been involved in the murder of the President of the United States-even if they weren't acting on behalf of the Agency when they did it."
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"A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part."
"I could never have conceived that I would ever get to work in a Truffaut film. It was astonishing to me, and still is. I felt like an old pro, but it was still so unexpected."
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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."
"My view is quite simple. When your dog pees on the carpet, you do not give away your dog. You say, This dog is special. I have to teach him not to pee on the carpet. I feel exactly the same way about men. They need to be taught things."
"I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty."
"At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger."
"At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people."
"I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants."
"I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do."
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