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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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"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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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
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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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"Acting is happy agony."
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"The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it."
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"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."
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"I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules."
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"I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film."
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"Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting."
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"Time scoots along pretty fast when you grow up."
Time
"I don't care how small the parts are, as long as they're good."
Care
"It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office."
Money
"I'm going to make it. Nothing is going to stop me. Nothing. I want it too much."
Nothing
"I'm working myself to death."
Death
"When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice."
Pretty
"Just as Jimmy Stewart and Tyrone Power get 50 percent of the profits, so do I."
Power
"I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me."
Death
"It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry."
Food
"I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day."
Father
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