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Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not. (Bull Deborah)
A lot of time I was acting to nobody. (Bull Deborah)
Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what it means to play a character rather than just be a personality. (Bull Deborah)
When not much is happening and there seems to be nothing you can do to change that, you do wonder. But I am an actor, like it or not. I stuck with it and took what was offered. (Bull Deborah)
Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them. (Bull Deborah)
Every time an Oscar is given out, an agent gets his wings. (Bull Deborah)
It was also wonderful to have the prospect of playing with Jack Nicholson. It was a terrific part, a terrific script, with Alexander Payne and Jack Nicholson. You can't get any better than that! (Bull Deborah)
Jack made it very comfortable for me on the set. We'd met socially before but never worked together. You know, he's very professional, very disciplined and he's always prepared and knows his lines. (Bull Deborah)
The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy. (Bull Deborah)
But I'm not objective when I'm acting. (Bull Deborah)
In each scene, actors and directors try to find an unexpected moment or subtext that's not obvious in the writing. (Bull Deborah)
I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me. So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far. (Bull Deborah)
I went to college in Pittsburgh at Carnegie Mellon University... studied acting there. Then I went to New York for about five years. I moved out here about 10 years ago. (Bull Deborah)
“He allows his actors freedom to explore,” (Bull Deborah)
“There's no nudity in those sex scenes, but they were the most emotionally draining ones I've ever done,” (Bull Deborah)
“I took acting and elocution lessons, to get rid of my Sicilian accent.” (Bull Deborah)
Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does. (Bull Deborah)
Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress. (Bull Deborah)
“I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.” (Bull Deborah)
I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me. (Bull Deborah)
We must be able to inspire. That's my goal in acting. (Bull Deborah)
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