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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."
"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."
"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."
"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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"All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form."
"People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession."
"In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience."
"You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you."
"I believe in things that move people, if the audience isn't deeply caught up and moved to either laughter or tears then I don't think it is theater."
"Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore."
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