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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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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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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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"Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine."
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"I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself."
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"It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting."
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"I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York."
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"With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting."
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"But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different."
Character
"In theater, the wellspring of the character comes from the doing of it, like a trial by fire, but in front of an audience."
Character
"When I see what I want, I do it."
Want
"All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form."
Art
"We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it."
Theatre
"You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you."
Trust
"I know people like spectacle, but I'm interested in moving people."
People
"There is some sadness for me now about acting because it used to be that there was a reverence for actors."
Acting
"People who call themselves actors and can't ever get work; they do need to get another profession."
Work
"I think in small towns like this one, whether you're a man or a woman, you basically do what there is to do."
Man
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