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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."

"The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and 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."

"I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules."

"I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film."
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"There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else."

"When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say."

"And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that."

"I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else."

"I actually washed my window once, and it fell through - it was being held together by the dirt."

"I've watched those shows my whole life - being on one is like a dream. It's hard to balance that dream with the fact that this is the Edie I've known my whole life."

"I was a young kid from Long Island who wanted to do something large with her life, so I can relate to that."
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