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Just because we're on schedule is no reason to shoot bad acting. Someone once said to me, 'You're inconsiderate.' And I said, 'Inconsiderate? Bad acting is the ultimate inconsideration.' It's a collective slap to a million faces at the same time.

Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

The ultimate acting is to destroy yourself.

The worst acting is about imitation.

In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.

Let me tell you a little secret: There are no bad actors. There are none. You have to find the right role. I never give up on people. For God's sake, look at me.

Most actors want the audience to like them, and that leads to bad acting.