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"Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened."
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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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"You have to do real acting, not just do a voice."
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"It was always part of the plan to move into acting."
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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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"Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium."
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"I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness!"
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"Sometimes, when you're acting, you are so in the moment that you don't even remember what just happened."
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"Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting."
Family

"Personally, I don't think we could do such a show if we didn't get along. The subtext of all this is that we're women in a show so we can't possibly get along. It's not like they write about The Sopranos like that."
Woman

"I may not be perfect, but I'm trying."
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"We all get so caught up in our day-to-day lives and have so many gripes. But when you see the way others live and how they make the best of it, you'll realize how lucky you are."
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"Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists."
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"I probably believe in God in a non-denominational way."
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"Also, it was a cultural moment that wasn't being represented in terms of women who were successful and had choices they didn't have before. They needed a show that they can watch that they felt like represented them."
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"I'm just happy when people want me to work for them."
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