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"What's interesting about the process of acting is how often you don't know what you're doing."
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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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"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
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"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
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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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"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."
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"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
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"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."
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"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."
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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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"Acting touches nerves you have absolutely no control over."
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"If people want to know who I am, it is all in the work."
Work
"Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility."
Talent
"I was 7, and I remember being given a part in a play and thinking, This is exciting."
Being
"I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision."
Life
"I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom."
Discipline
"It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising."
Future
"Maverick is a word which appeals to me more than misfit. Maverick is active, misfit is passive."
Word
"Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together."
Character
"Market forces impose certain rules before a film can actually get made."
Film
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