"You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where..." ."

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Grant Heslov

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“I'm such an awful faker. Everything that comes out of my mouth needs to be the real deal. Not that I ever try to be deceiving, but sometimes it takes a while to find your voice and find what you want to say.”
“I get an incredible thrill and satisfaction from seeing somebody with Appleâ€™s tell-tale white earbuds. But Iâ€™m constantly haunted by thoughts of, is it good enough? Is there any way we could have made it better?”
“Excessive animal protein is at the core of many chronic diseases.”
“I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment - this was the time - when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals.”
“If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part.”
“I never got nervous performing my own material.”
“[To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.”
“I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.”

Source : "I'd love to play a psycho killer" by Michael Ellison, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2001.

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