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“That's why there's so little romance in our world now: everyone thinks romance is weak.”

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If we lived for reality, we'd be dead, every last one of us. Only dreams keep us going.

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Everyone thinks romance is weak. Yet romance is everyone's secret dream-it's why we're alive.

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Every scene is a love scene. The actor should ask the question: 'Where is the love?'

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Every scene you will ever act begins in the middle, and it is up to you, the actor, to provide what comes before.

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