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"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."
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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."

"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."

"But then acting is all about faking. We're all very good at faking things that we have no competence with."

"Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over."
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"People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there."

"I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older."

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

"I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do."

"Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person."

"I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject."

"Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men."
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