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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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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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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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"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
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"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
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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 like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."
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"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
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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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"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."
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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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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
"I have never acted he has never been cast in a romantic lead or has been cast opposite a female love interest in any movie he starred in."
Love
"You're going to relegate my history to a month."
History
"When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater."
God
"The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him."
Life
"I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy."
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"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance."
Life
"My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston."
Time
"I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
History
"I joined the air force. I took to it immediately when I arrived there. I did three years, eight months, and ten days in all, but it took me a year and a half to get disabused of my romantic notions about it."
Force
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