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"Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play."
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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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"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
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"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."
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"I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!"
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"My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure."
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"Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side."
Fear
"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer."
Writer
"I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write."
Time
"You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by."
Living
"Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play."
Acting
"I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself."
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"Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism."
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