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"It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all."
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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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"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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"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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"I've worked for 27 years nonstop in theater and films. That's a lot of work."
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"My dream as a youngster was to be like Olivier. To be a great stage actor. To be a great Shakespearean actor. To me that is the Olympics of acting."
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"I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago."
Time
"It's a blessing and a curse. But it's not always the best situation to be in. As a profession, I don't recommend acting at all."
Acting
"I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker."
Life
"I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that."
Film
"The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me."
Economics
"Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation."
Acting
"I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with."
People
"I never pursued a career relentlessly."
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