"I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician."
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"I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short."
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"If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless."
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"We set the actors on the scene through the banal discourse of "conflict" in ways that fully deflect from the history and struggle of colonial resistance, refusing as well by that means to link the resistance to other forms of colonial resistance, their rationale, and their tactics."
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"That would have been a great ticket, Reagan and Ford - an actor and a stuntman."
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"The challenge for me is still to do something that hasn't been beaten into the movie going consciousness. Otherwise what am I in it for?"
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"I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience."
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"TV acting is so extremely intimate, because of the peculiar involvement of the viewer with the completion or "closing" of the TV image, that the actor must achieve a great degree of spontaneous casualness that would be irrelevant in movie and lost on the stage. For the audience participates in the inner life of the TV actor as fully as in the outer life of the movie star. Technically, TV tends to be a close-up medium. The close-up that in the movie is used for shock is, on TV, a quite casual thing."
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"I just get to go to work with such great actors who are so talented, especially Elizabeth (Perkins). You are so wonderful and kind and good and wonderful and sexy and great, and I just want to make out with all of you."
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"Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story."
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"I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'"
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"Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done."
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"I would say, don't smoke. I'm kidding, but yeah, I did smoke in college and as a young actor and it's stupid."
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"I always feel like I can't do it, that I can't go through with a movie. But then I do go through with it after all."
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"When you're an actor and there's no music, you have to sort of bring it all yourself."
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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"I think a lot of actors are overly concerned about being well liked in the parts they play."
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"I'm probably an actor that tends to, instead of putting things on, think about it more in terms of taking away what's not in the character, until I'm left with what is. If that makes sense. That's probably a particularly American way of working, but maybe not. The end of any movie is a readjustment."
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"I think it's damaging to know too much about a person, about an actor."
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"As an actor, you usually live your life with faith."
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