The foundation for film acting is stage acting.

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I'll tell you why, I don't invite the ones I don't like.

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Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.

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I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates.

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Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.

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What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before.

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They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.

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The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do.

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The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

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It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down.

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