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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."

"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."

"Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting."

"My acting coach makes the impossible accessible."

"Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this."
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"I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!"


"Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this."


"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."


"I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it."


"People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show."


"I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point."


"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."
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