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"When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate."
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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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"There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't be proven to exist. Nothing is there."

"I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling."

"I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist."

"My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy."

"If the work is going well and it's something that has value with some meaning to it, it gives back a lot."

"I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind constantly. I wouldn't see it in a cave."

"Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful not to hurt anybody. He's skillful."

"I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it."
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