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"I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing."
"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
"I was at an acting academy for seven years prior to the trial."
"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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"Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing."
"Showing up every day isn't enough. There are a lot of guys who show up every day who shouldn't have showed up at all."
"Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them."
"It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today."
"One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?"
"People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them."
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