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"Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting."
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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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"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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"It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting."
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"I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York."
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"With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting."
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"My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?"
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"My grandmother was a teacher, my sister was a teacher, my daughter was a teacher and is now a superintendent in northern California, and my son-in-law is a high school principal. I am surrounded."
Sister

"I do know the Spelling family. I worked for Aaron Spelling when I was a brunette. I've known them since Tori was a little girl."
Family

"Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting."
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"I talk about acting to students making the transition from high school to UCLA. Kids going into this profession really need to know the reality of it."
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"I am the odd man out in the family."
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"Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking."
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"I'd had my daughter when I was a teenager - I took my daughter to college with me."
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"I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts."
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"If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them."
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