"My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner."
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"My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film."
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"Reciting poetry isn't acting, it's memory work. Actor's are deceivers. People who pretend to be something else for a living aren't right in the head."
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"Except for light, all other media come in pairs, with one acting as the "content" of the other, obscuring the operation of both."
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"What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can"
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"I've never had an acting lesson. I've never been given techniques. Everything I've done is invented. I just sort of found out [how to do it]."
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"I'm screaming for help and everybody's acting as if I'm singing Ethel Merman covers."
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"I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie."
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"I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it."
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"Performing of any kind: singing, acting, dancing. I also get really excited during interviews."
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"You know the theory of cell irritability? If you take an amoeba cell and poke it a thousand times, it will change and then re-form into its original shape. And then, the thousandth time you poke this amoeba, the cell will completely collapse and become nothing. That's kind of what it's like being famous. People say hi, how are you doing, and after the thousandth time, you just get angry; you really pop."
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"When you start so young working, you build a hunger for acting, working, and a busy life."
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"Acting was important, but it was not as important as getting an education, and I credit my parents with a lot of that."
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"The more women help one another, the more we help ourselves. Acting like a coalition truly does produce results. Any coalition of support must also include men, many of whom care about gender inequality as much as women do."
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"I'm addicted to acting."
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"With acting, you have to take it seriously because the other actors are putting in a lot of effort - and if you say, 'I'm just bullshitting here', it's like dissing 'em."
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"I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them."
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"I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling."
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"I don't know if acting is what I want to do for the rest of my life, it's just what I've, you know, ended up doing when I was little, and I've kinda grown up with it."
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"The art of an actress is sublimated sexuality. But off the stage the fire must be able to reconvert the steam into body."
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