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Ryan Reynolds

"I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!"

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Donna Grant

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

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Donna Grant

"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."

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Donna Grant

"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting."

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Donna Grant

"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."

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Donna Grant

"Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!"

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Donna Grant

"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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Ryan Reynolds
"When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people."

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Ryan Reynolds
"I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?"

Family

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Ryan Reynolds
"I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!"

Acting

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Ryan Reynolds
"I love doing six versions of any joke, so if they'll give me six takes, I'd love to do it."

Love

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Ryan Reynolds
"It was comical because you're at a firing range, all these people are so seriously shooting their little guns."

People

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Ryan Reynolds
"I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now."

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Ryan Reynolds
"Four months after we finished shooting, I'd been in New Orleans shooting another movie and my agent and I were having a bite to eat - actually in London - and he's sitting there and goes, 'Wow, I just can't believe how ripped you are.'"

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Ryan Reynolds
"I remember being upset because I was finally legal to drink in Canada, and I decided to throw that all away and move to America, where I had to wait another two years. I came here to do improv and to try to join the Groundlings."

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Ryan Reynolds
"We might be too proud to admit it as guys, but we still need to learn how to manage responsibility, how to face our challenges."

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Ryan Reynolds
"My father was a police officer before he retired. One of my brothers is also a police officer, and I think they kind of expected I would do something along those lines, like become a fireman or something."

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