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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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"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."
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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
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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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"Acting is happy agony."
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"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."
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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."
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"I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules."
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"I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film."
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"Well, I'm never happier than when I'm acting."
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"Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link."
Feelings
"I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life."
Life
"But I've never looked at myself as being particularly funny."
Funny
"People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show."
People
"At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes."
Golf
"I was desperate to go back to New York and when 9/11 happened, I feared moving to the bulls-eye and that was very hard because I have a lot of family there and I really had to question what I didn't like about this community."
Family
"I'm not a huge fan of my work."
Work
"And I thought, you know, I have to say that maybe the whacked out mother is my new favorite role, but I don't want to just do it and become Nurse Ratchett."
Mother
"I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke."
Men
"But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973."
Now
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