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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."
"The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it."
"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."
"I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules."
"I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film."
Explore more quotes by Tim Robbins
"New York is not conductive to theater. New York does not encourage its young. It does not encourage experimentation."
"There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things."
"I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships."
"When you have a person in power who punishes people for speaking their mind, it's truly dangerous."
"I wouldn't say I'm a method actor. I do research when I feel I don't have enough experience for the part I'm playing."
"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."
"My philosophy is, don't take no for an answer and be willing to sacrifice your entire project for freedom."
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