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"It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else."
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"Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived."

"Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality."

"Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes."

"There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all."

"There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge."

"When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out."

"Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously."

"Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment."

"Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia."
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"One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made."

"I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real."

"Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed."

"Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome."

"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."

"Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women."
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