"When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up."

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"When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up."

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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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"If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?"

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"It's been very important for me to follow my gut or my heart, or whichever organ you want to go by."

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"I see my job as an actor to be as good a channel as I can be. Acting is a gift, and I have respect for it."

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"The weird thing about this business - and I'm sure this operates in many other things, but it's very present and acute in this business - is that a lot of people don't realize that they have power. Particularly actors."

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