"Action and becoming are one."
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"An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes."
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"While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world."
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"I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of Oz.' I was always in the chorus."
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"I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you make a mistake, they know it and you know it. I won't do anything where I feel like I'm just making a fool out of myself. By doing that, I'm able to rise to my highest potential."
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"As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less."
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"Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere."
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"Acting means living, it's all I do."
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"As long as I'm acting and doing what I love, I'll be happy."
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"I'm too busy acting like I'm not Naive. I've seen it all, I was here first."
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"I go to an acting class every Sunday."
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"I want to make a clear distinction between people who take acting seriously and people who call themselves actors because theyve been on reality TV or something."
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"I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing - I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do."
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"Groucho Marx, in his later days, gave me the best review I've ever had and probably will ever have. I changed a light bulb over his bed, and when I came off of his bed with the used one after putting the new one in, Groucho said, 'That's the best acting I've ever seen you do.'"
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"The only reason I'm acting in films I direct is to get the money to make them, quite frankly, it's not what I'm interested in doing."
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"I have such a strong acting background because I know what I'm looking for, I know what the needs are, and I know acting when I see it."
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"I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique."
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"Why would you get up there and bore people? I never have figured that out. These people are supposedly in the entertainment industry, and they finally get up there to that podium and they become the most boring people in the world."
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"You develop courage by acting courageously whenever you feel like acting otherwise."
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"So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will."
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