"Acting is very immediate."

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

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"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."

Tara Lipinski, American Athlete

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"Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?"

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"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."

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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 happy agony."

"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."

"Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?"

"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."

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"Warner Bros offered me the next Batman, and the only reason that I didn't do it was because of The Saint."

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"The Secret Service is a strange group. They don't really have a leader. It's not set up like a military. Each one is supposed to be able to act like a leader when something comes up."

"That's the joy of art - it should be dangerous and challenging but it's just art - it's safe."

"The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great."

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