A Quote by Dermot Mulroney
What's fascinating about acting is that you put yourself in somebody else's mind or in their shoes.
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I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."
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I never had to put myself in somebody else's shoes.
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