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Rod Steiger

"Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting."

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"Now that was one thing, but from an actor's point of view, this poor young man, crying from the moment I opened the door to the moment he left. Now if an actor did that they would say he's over-acting."

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Donna Grant

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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Donna Grant

"I like to consider myself an actor who just happens to be Hispanic."

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Donna Grant

"When you get all this stuff on and you put on the guns and the hair, it has an effect on the actor. It tends to lend a certain something to the way you feel as you're just walking around looking that way."

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Donna Grant

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

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Donna Grant

"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."

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Donna Grant

"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

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Donna Grant

"You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves."

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Donna Grant

"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

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Donna Grant

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

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Donna Grant

"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."

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Rod Steiger
"And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully."

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Rod Steiger
"I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I'll put my tongue down her throat and you'll get what you want'. He said 'You think so?'"

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Rod Steiger
"He saved the production a tremendous amount. Now they did the scene where Omar is on the horse and he's in the deep snow, they went to Finland to do that. That scene they went to Finland for a week. I wasn't around then."

Deep

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Rod Steiger
"I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling."

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Rod Steiger
"I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody."

Actor

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Rod Steiger
"That's not a villain, that's a man whose a victim of being in love with the wrong one."

Love

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Rod Steiger
"Is this a proposal? I'm married now, you know."

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Rod Steiger
"I was pleased when the picture was over I fit in all right and I spoke well enough as I said before, cause I was scared to death there for a minute. I mean, you're doing a scene with somebody like that or they're watching you or something, you'd better come up with something."

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Rod Steiger
"If he didn't fall in love he would have never come back near the end of the film. Because, what man is going to dishonor himself so that he comes back in front of the man that took a woman away from him... and warns her to save her life?"

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Rod Steiger
"Sometimes it's great, sometimes it's bad. I think the film could have been a lot better."

Film

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