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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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"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."

"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."

"Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting."

"My acting coach makes the impossible accessible."

"Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this."
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"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."

"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."

"Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time."

"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."
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