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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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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."
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"It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting."
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"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
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"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."
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"My parents felt that acting was far too insecure. Don't ask me what made them think that painting would be more secure."
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"But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting."
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"When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy."
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"Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting."
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"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."
Day

"What's the difference between sex and love? I have four wives and five kids. I apparently don't know the difference."
Love

"I've been lucky. The critics never went out of their way to single me out for doing bad work."
Work

"I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his family, like his suits, are just make-up. It's about dysfunctional people and dysfunctional relationships."
Family

"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."
Beauty

"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."
Time

"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."
Life

"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."
God

"I always thought of myself as some sort of athlete until I started playing golf a couple years ago."
Thought

"To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while."
Divorce
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