"It's better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all."
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"Acting is my way of investigating human nature and having fun at the same time"
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"Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said."
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"You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded."
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"I want to be a great actor someday, and I've decided there's no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft."
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"My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand there.' Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing."
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"Acting is really therapeutic for me, personally. That's something that I'll always remember. I don't know how it's going to look, but I gave it my heart and soul."
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"I remember being cast in the first "Harry Potter" film and being quite amused, because I was imagining that someone who'd been acting since they'd been crawling would be cast. The faith and trust that they'd put into everyone actually enabled you to gain confidence back, in the sense of feeling that sense of achievement, which is incredibly hard when you're young."
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"Courage comes from acting courageously on a day-to-day basis."
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"In the theater, you act more of the time. In the movies, you get to act maybe 20 or 30 minutes of the day. I love acting in movies. It's just different."
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"I didn't get into acting to have a moment, I got into it because of people who've inspired me, like Judi Dench, Holly Hunter, and Jodie Foster."
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"I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons."
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"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms."
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"I don't care to analyze acting. On the other hand there is a fascination because distributors are putting out British films. You get films here with great performances you'll never see again. Why compare. We should go after the businessmen."
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"Hosting is an art form. Like acting, singing, or comedy hosting is a craft. It's a delicate dance of timing, the ability to read the room, and the art of conversation."
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"Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing."
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"It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that"
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"The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting."
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"Early on - certainly in acting - you really have to take whatever you can get. So I understand well how difficult it can be to be in this position where people are just not hearing what you're trying to say or are saying. I recognize that."
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"I enjoy acting when you really hit it right."
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