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"Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right."
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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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"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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"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
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"Suddenly, I realised: this was what I wanted to do. I didn't know how to do it; I just knew acting felt right."
Acting
"I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters."
Life
"As a measure of acting skills, film can be very deceptive."
Acting
"Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability."
Men
"Some stars like to hide behind the whole idea of acting. But really good actors are not hiding at all. They're not afraid to be disliked, to be a little unsavoury."
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"I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience."
Men
"Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is."
Months
"I used to go home at night and just shake, because I had no idea that's what acting was gonna be."
Home
"I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good."
People
"I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science."
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