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"I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am."
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"My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner."
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"I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game."
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"Then, when I was a senior in high school, I was kind of bereft and she put me in an acting class."
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"Acting for me is not that quid pro quo."
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"You don't have any kind of sense of being foolish when you are acting. When you're younger you don't want to look a fool, so you don't do things that might make you vulnerable."
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"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."
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"And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no."
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"I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wanted to do something that wasn't nine to five. Acting was the first thing I tried that clicked."
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"To me acting is like a jigsaw puzzle. The jigsaw puzzle is of the sky and all the pieces are blue. Out of this you have to create a human being and put it together."
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"At school there was no acting to be had other than school plays which I did now and again."
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"I could talk about him all day. He's one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me."
Day
"It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar."
Winning
"Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked."
Performance
"I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable."
Experience
"Of course I work hard. Why shouldn't I? Who am I to think I should get things the easy way?"
Work
"I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing."
Time
"When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that."
Thought
"I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times."
Actor
"Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously."
People
"I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes."
Books
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