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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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"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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"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."
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"When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous."
Power
"I've been lucky-my looks haven't put me into one category. I don't look like a blue blood. I don't look like a criminal. I don't look like anything."
Blood
"You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing."
Money
"Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination."
Art
"Just because someone gets arrested doesn't mean what they are doing is wrong. Some laws are unfair and unjust."
Law
"You had to know how to fight or you had to know how to avoid a fight. I didn't enjoy fighting, so I learned how to avoid them."
Fight
"I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun."
Acting
"Altman was told they wouldn't do the film with me. He could easily have abandoned me, but he stood by me and really bailed me out."
Film
"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation."
Theatre
"Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative."
Time
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