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Elliott Gould

"I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.'"

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Donna Grant

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York."

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Donna Grant

"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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Elliott Gould
"I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time."

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Elliott Gould
"I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.'"

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Elliott Gould
"There's nothing more arrogant or conceited than youth, and there's nothing other than machinery that can replace youth."

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Elliott Gould
"My greatest fear is to be misunderstood."

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