"I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing."

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"I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing."

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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

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

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

"I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by."

"I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past."

"You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom."

"Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take."

"I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me."

"I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously."

"Acting doesn't feel good. It's not comfortable to feel all this stuff, it's not."

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"One of the remarkable things about my career is that it has been marked by steady, incremental progress. No sudden spikes up, and no sudden downfalls, either."

"I've succeeded beyond my wildest dreams - financially and the amount of fun I have in my life."

"I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I never seriously considered it as a career choice."

"As an actor, I felt I couldn't compete. I wasn't as cute as the leading man; I wasn't as brilliant as Robin Williams."

"The one thing I could do was voices and impersonations and weird characters, and there was really no call for that, except on Saturday Night Live."

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"I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing."