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"My acting career helped pull me through the rough times."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
"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."
"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."
"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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"Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater."
"They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!"
"When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts."
"There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about."
"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."
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