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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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"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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"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
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"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
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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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"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."
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"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
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"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."
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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."
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"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."
Woman

"Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding."
Love

"I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears."
Talk

"Oh, don't let's ask for the moon. We've already got the stars."
Moon

"To look back is to relax one's vigil."
Relax

"When a man gives his opinion he's a man. When a woman gives her opinion she's a bitch."
Man

"Strong women only marry weak men."
Men

"There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch."
Truth

"I went back to work because someone had to pay for the groceries."
Work

"Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work."
Work
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