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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."

"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."

"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."

"I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules."
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"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation."

"I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large."

"I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun."

"There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things."

"Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative."

"When you make the judgement as a network that there are only three candidates, you are censoring points of view."

"I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships."
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