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"The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish."
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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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"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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"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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"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."
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"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"
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"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."
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"TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that."
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"Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him."
Money
"We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise."
Army
"I became a fanatic about healthy food in 1944."
Food
"The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do."
Fun
"I was the first celebrity in pictures to be marrying a titled European."
Celebrity
"I always anticipated difficulties in order to avoid scenes."
Difficulty
"Sunset Boulevard opened in August 1950, and it was pronounced the best movie ever made about Hollywood."
Hollywood
"Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat."
Body
"In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it."
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"The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event."
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