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"I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30."
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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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"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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"It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting."
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"With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting."
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"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
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"Acting is a win-win situation. There is no risk involved. That's why I get tired of hearing actors who try to make out that there's a downside to it. Fame is an odd thing. It bugs you a little bit, but it's really not bad."
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"Acting is like roller skating. Once you know how to do it, it is neither stimulating nor exciting."
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"I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music."
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"I didn't actually begin professionally acting until I was 30."
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"Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief."
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"Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way."
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"I loved Peg Bundy. I am so happy that I got to do that. It was really fun."
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"Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music."
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"I'm a pretty emotional person."
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"And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice."
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"So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really what I wanted to do. And I sang from the time I was very young."
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"And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts."
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