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"Depending on what your interest in theater is, I always recommend working on plays. It's a great way to be introduced to the field, and also a great way to be seen by agents and representation. I'm also a great advocate for studying acting at a drama school or a college."

"Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it."

"I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred."

"It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting."

"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."

"In acting process, it's very difficult to explain. It's something very intimate, very private."
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"I think that's what distinguishes Schmidt, really. In the movies now, so much of what is appealing to an audience is the dramatic or has to do with science fiction, and Schmidt is simply human. There's no melodrama; there's no device, It's just about a human being."

"I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled."

"There is no way you can get people to believe you on screen if they know who you really are through television."

"I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped."
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