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"I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my 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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"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
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"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
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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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"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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"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
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"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."
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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."
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"I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing."
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"It was so much fun to play, that I've now had a taste for it and want to play more villains now."
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"There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable."
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"There are a lot of people who wait tables. And especially because you can do it at night and you can do your work in the day, she and I had a very similar experience."
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"Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act."
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"Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17."
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"But Paulie gives all of herself away, and so to create a love like that and a person who would give themselves away was what I thought was going to be difficult. I was little scared of such a challenge."
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"What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year."
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"So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life."
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"So I started to learn guitar right away."
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