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"I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor."
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"As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive."
"Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor."
"You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap."
"I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile."
"I've been just like any other working actor, out there looking for stuff."
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"For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists."
"I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed."
"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"
"There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway."
"The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed."
"I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise."
"The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it."
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