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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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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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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'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
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"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."
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"But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting."
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"When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy."
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"I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling."
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"In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic."
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"I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do."
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"The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy."
Jazz

"I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation."
People

"I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy."
World

"Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get."
Actor

"I'm Irish. I think about death all the time."
Death

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

"In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way."
Actor

"There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend."
Life

"Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago."
Age

"I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it."
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