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"If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."

"Acting is something different to everybody. I just know that if you watch an actor or actress getting better and better, I think that's them just understanding themselves better and better."

"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."

"Other acting opportunities had come along, but nothing that was tantalizing enough to me to step away from what I found most interesting."

"Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly."
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"The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the people he would like to have perform, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them."

"I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice."

"I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak."

"I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything - I do everything all wrong - but I think for me that's the best - because I don't think I have a voice so I think what I project would be style - if I learned to sing I'd lose my style."

"Bobby Troup and I have been working together for about a year in clubs. We work in the same club."
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