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"Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class."
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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."
"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."
"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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"What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed."
"Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much."
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"Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production."
"It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble."
"That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed."
"The next thing I wrote was in a writing class at night school. It was about a poor woman who worked at a dime store and who was all alone for Christmas in Laurel, Mississippi."
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