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"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting."
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"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."
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"Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found."
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"Acting is like going to the gym. You have to keep yourself in shape and concentrate on your core."
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"Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine."
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"There is no acting in a serial. You simply race through the reels."
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"I want to write a book which is the history of comedy."
History
"The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting."
Idea
"I can't tell you how scary it can be walking onto a movie and suddenly joining this family, it's like going to somebody else's Christmas dinner, everyone knows everyone, and you're there and you're not quite sure what you're supposed to be doing."
Family
"A man will give up almost anything except his suffering."
Man
"Who's ever going to write a film in which I get the girl? Me!"
Film
"I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game."
Talent
"When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy."
Acting
"If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play."
Time
"I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me."
Being
"Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all."
Experts
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