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- It's like kids playing house: 'You play the father, I'll play the mother.' You know, you dress up, you play, they pay, you go home.…
- Some people say, 'Do you have any theories on acting?' And I say, well maybe: I think you can start with zero and end with…
- You have a little bit of feeling for everyone you play.
- Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
- Well, it's like my movie, 'The Apostle.' Some people in the North don't get that movie. They think that, in the South, if you don't…
- You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you…
- You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.
- You just can't take a crash course to be a tango dancer in a movie.
- It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.
- We all have a cradle-to-the-grave journey to make and, in between, what do you do? There's got to be something hereafter.
- I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid…
- A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies.
- But for me, the challenge is how you turn a character into behavior. Once the director says 'action', you just try to live between those…
- If you don't have heroes in the beginning, you don't grow.
- Seeing your name on the list for KP or guard duty when you're in the Army is like reading a bad review.
- Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you…
- Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.
- I've always remembered something Sanford Meisner, my acting teacher, told us. When you create a character, it's like making a chair, except instead of making…
- Sometimes directors will hire you and say, 'Oh, we love your work.' And then they start to tell you how to do it. I say,…
- Sometimes you don't prepare much. I mean, when I did 'Lonesome Dove' way back I rode horses day and night for like three or four…
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- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you… — Orlando Bloom
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento