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Gloria Swanson

"The fuss that actors began making about the difficulty of shifting to sound struck me as perfectly foolish."

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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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"An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening."

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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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"Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat."
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