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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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"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."
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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."
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"There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me."
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"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."
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"I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors."
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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."
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"The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover."
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"One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor."
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"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."
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"A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered."
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"I have spent a lot of years on the outside looking in."
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"After I had done a handful of cartoons I was satisfied with, I started submitting them to the magazines."
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"Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners."
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"I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it."
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"There is no law that says a man who earned a hundred million dollars in his first half-dozen years on the job has to be a decent human being, but Mike Eisner is that and more."
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"I hope we don't get to the point where we have to have the cat stop chasing the mouse to teach him glassblowing and basket weaving."
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"Among the great glories of the MGM lot were the vast outdoor sets that had been constructed over the years."
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"Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year."
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"Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops."
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"I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me."
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