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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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"Some of the pictures I must say every now and then I just think are going to be funny. When it gets that much, you might as well just pull out all the stops and make it more of a burlesque."

"I never stopped making pictures. There were times when more of my income was coming from other sources, and I had to devote more time to television and movies and records."

"I kind of just lucked into and fell into the other profession. It was really just an outgrowth of the fact that when I was in art school, I had no money whatsoever."

"It's hard to decide if TV makes morons out of everyone, or if it mirrors Americans who really are morons to begin with."

"I had a teacher in art school who said something about the only works he really enjoyed seeing or found much in were works where he had a sense that a discovery was made in the course of making this object. I like to hold to that as my marching orders."

"I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing."

"It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint."
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