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"Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found."
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"I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing."

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

"I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial."

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."

"It's well done if you can do a part and not have the acting show."
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"I really liked Yale, although it was extremely intimidating. When I visited the campus, I was hiding behind trees, I felt so unworthy."

"You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film."

"I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off."

"But I don't know if people are meant to be together. You have to have a lot in common, choose well and be really fortunate. It's not like you're sprinkled with fairy dust. You have to believe that love will be there when you need it."

"I get a little jealous of these actor boys. They walk into a club, and in two seconds flat there are swarms of girls who are wanting so badly to touch them or just say hello. That's not the case with me, or any other girl I know."

"I finally realized that yeah I did want to be an actor and it wasn't out of habit, but I needed to grow up for myself and then kind of re-enter the industry with a sound understanding of what my sensibilities and my values are as a relatively formed human being."

"There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you."
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