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"I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along."
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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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"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."
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"My acting coach makes the impossible accessible."
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"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."
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"I don't like acting things; I like feeling things."
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"Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court."
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"There's a great deal of child left in me and acting is fun. It's a make believe thing."
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"Acting has been very useful to me."
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"I didn't go to film school, I went to acting school."
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"When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street."
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"People often refer to my career before The Crying Game as something which led up to that point. But I was very fulfilled in what I was doing."
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"I didn't want to be seen as just a guy on a list. I'm interested in good scripts, scripts that are about something, scripts that move your acting along."
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"I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down."
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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."
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"Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie."
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"People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy."
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"My kids act all the time and it's exactly what I used to do."
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"I'm enjoying it, but I still don't know why I'm hooked on acting."
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"I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago."
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"At this moment, when Ireland seems about to break into something new, we thought it was worth looking back at a time when people seemed to have found a way out of the sectarian division of the country."
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