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"I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up."
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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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"I want people to like me. They don't have to always like my characters, you understand."
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"You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious."
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"What makes me angry? The education of children. How in God's name can you expect to have a functioning society the way we teach our kids?"
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"The older I get, the less I suffer fools gladly."
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"I had a great deal of pressure to move to LA after Romancing the Stone came out and I'd become very popular. But people came to me anyway."
People
"I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay."
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"I have no desire to play most of the roles being offered."
Being
"This is not about abortion or the antics. This is about pro choice versus anti-choice and government intervention in a woman's personal decisions about her life."
Government
"At about 40, the roles started slowing down. I started getting offers to play mothers and grandmothers."
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"Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well."
Passion
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