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"The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage."

"It confirms for me that we did something on Days that meant something. We had our ups and downs, but Missy and I and some of the other actors, created something that was really memorable."

"The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow."

"The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore."

"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."
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"I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse."

"It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine."

"If anybody doubts my loyalty to my country, I'll punch him in the nose, and I don't care how old he is."

"It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it."
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