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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."
"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."
"The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it."
"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."
"I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules."
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"This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me."
"Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater."
"My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater."
"There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about."
"So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals."
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