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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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"Every man dies. Not every man lives."
Man
"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."
Acting
"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."
Experience
"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
"I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships."
Life
"You get money out of acting. You get gray hair out of directing. Actually, I get more of a rush from directing."
Money
"Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown."
Government
"It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money."
Money
"Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination."
Art
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