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"It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with."
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"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."
"My acting career helped pull me through the rough times."
"When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that."
"But you're right, I did think about acting more and then decided against it."
"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."
"You couldn't take football away from me, you couldn't take acting away from me."
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"I think Junior is certainly a science fiction premise as is Twins, as is Dave, beyond Ghostbusters."
"Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work."
"Then my first film was something called Cannibal Girls, which sounds like a horror movie but was actually kind of a goofy comedy with horror elements. Like a horror spoof."
"A good actor is someone who knows how to take the part and make it real and make it honest and be effective in it. If it's in a funny movie and, as long as they are cast in an appropriate way, humor will come from it."
"The home viewing experience is slightly different and there's room for these kinds of extra excursions."
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