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"I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it."
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."
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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."
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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."
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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
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"Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four."
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"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."
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"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."
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"Ronnie Barker will forever be remembered as one of the great comic actors."
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"I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by."
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"I'm sad about this, but we shouldn't have been married in the first place."
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"To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new."
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"I wanted to make an image for myself as an outlaw type. A kind of rock 'n' roll sensibility."
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"I try to do as many stunts as they'll let me do. I think it's important for an audience to feel that the actor's really doing it."
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"There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic."
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"I am not a demon. I am a lizard, a shark, a heat-seeking panther. I want to be Bob Denver on acid playing the accordion."
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"Shock is still fun. I won't ever shut the door on it."
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"I was always shocked when I went to the doctor's office and they did my X-ray and didn't find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green."
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"It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even."
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"Passion is very important to me. If you stop enjoying things, you've got to look at it, because it can lead to all kinds of depressing scenarios."
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