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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."
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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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"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 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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"You have to do real acting, not just do a voice."
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"It was always part of the plan to move into acting."
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"I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself."
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"Acting must be scaled down for the screen. A drawing room is a lot smaller than a theatre auditorium."
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"I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies; I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life."
Life

"My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that."
Feelings

"Expensive clothes are a waste of money."
Money

"I couldn't care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence."
Home

"I have a holistic need to work and to have huge ties of love in my life. I can't imagine eschewing one for the other."
Love

"All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying."
Attention

"Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you."
People

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

"I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you."
People

"The interesting thing about being a mother is that everyone wants pets, but no one but me cleans the kitty litter."
Mother
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