"If you're a boxer, you want to get the ring with a Mike Tyson or Muhammad Ali type. When you're acting, you want to get in with Meryl Streep, and that's what I did."
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"Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff."
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"Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff."
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"The people I respect in the history of acting, from the beginning, were chameleons."
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"... actors of the first water are not more plentiful than playwrights of genius."
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"I do acting for the awards... and cash money."
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"In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance."
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"I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical."
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"There's the acting side of it so you work with a coach. Dissect a script. If it's a character, then obviously a character study. Just depends on if there is training needed."
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"One of my favorite things is acting like a speaker or a professor or a CEO of a company and addressing the audience like a group of engineers or designers or marketers."
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"To seek out the best [persons to serve in the government] though the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with ther purest motives, is something incorrect....No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place."
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"If I have things my way, over the next few years, I'm going to be doing a lot more directing and a lot less acting. That will be fun for a while."
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"We're in the doing business, or acting business and creating business. We're not in the results business, so we don't have any control over what the result is."
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"The level of acting that I bring to films in three dimensions. I hope they make people sign some kind of waiver because if their mind explodes from my acting in 3D, it's not my fault."
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"I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about."
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"When you write a character and their dialogue, you can't help imagining how you would be acting if you were them. You kind of have to relate to all of them. It's the most personal thing I've ever done."
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"The easiest thing to do is to rag on the media, because it isn't doing a very good job right now. It is so much easier to profit from celebrating the worst aspects of ourselves. Acting strikes me as the antithesis of that. We can examine the worst aspects of ourselves, but we don't have to celebrate them."
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"When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch the filming of Claudine with James Earl Jones and Diahann Carroll. That was my first taste of seeing a set and the cameras, and I was bit by the acting bug at a young age."
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"When I first started, my main goal was to not be bartending anymore, and to not be working at the bank anymore. I just wanted acting to be my job."
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"I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!"
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