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"The foundation for film acting is stage acting."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
"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."
"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
"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."
"But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting."
"I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do."
"In acting there's two different things: You're either pitching in a scene, or you're catching."
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"I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong."
"When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students."
"They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors."
"The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do."
"Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily."
"And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks."
"I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting."
"I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview."
"The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive."
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