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"There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment."
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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."

"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 am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."

"Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting."

"Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly."
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"The name game is frustrating. Agents will say, They love you, but they're going to offer it to Julia Roberts first."

"It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads."

"I hate it when people use sex as a weapon against the people who are engaging in it. It's so hypocritical."

"I take the responsibility of choosing seriously because it becomes an indelible part of your body of work. Something has to sing to me."

"I have a hard time getting motivated to do something that seems like a career move. I've gotten into vague trouble with my agents for turning down work that I thought was exploitative."

"Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like."
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