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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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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"Acting is happy agony."
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"The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority."
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"I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers."
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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 don't get acting jobs because of my looks."
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"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"
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"I did a film once that I was killed in. It was a painful, horrifying day. It was a wonderful day from the standpoint of acting, but I was a wreck otherwise."
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"I'm now learning how to distinguish when I'm acting and when I'm not acting - offstage as well as onstage."
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"I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March."
Death
"My mother, sister and I watched through the windows as my father gambled."
Mother
"This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people."
People
"While I was doing these plays in the beginning, I wasn't getting paid. I thought of it more as a hobby. Then I realized how seriously a lot of these people took what they were doing."
Thought
"These days, you can do a TV series for five years and all of a sudden be on top of the business. Features don't even run in theaters very long anymore before going right to television."
Business
"I don't think a director should have any kids. I don't even think it's good for your physical health. Even guys in their 30s look exhausted because directors never get enough sleep. What I do is stressful enough."
Health
"Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?"
Mistake
"I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me."
Acting
"I guess if I weren't an actor, I'd be a history professor."
History
"You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and a hero."
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