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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

"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."

"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."

"Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over."

"Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core."
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"Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life."

"I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it."

"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know."

"Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world."

"People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else."

"Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition."
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