"Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act."

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"Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act."

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"Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on."

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"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."

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"Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night."

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"The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuously in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous."

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"In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."

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"One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses."

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"Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act."

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"When a role for a young guy is being offered to me, I think of River Phoenix. It feels like a loss."

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"I am friends with Demi. Don't believe anything you read."

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"I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role."

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"I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do."

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"If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay."

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"School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn."

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"Brothers don't necessarily have to say anything to each other - they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other."

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"I was always the kid in school who tried to get attention, not necessarily the class clown, but I'd do little unexpected performances."

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"I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun."

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