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"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."
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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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"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."
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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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"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'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say."
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"It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?"
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"When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days."
Opportunity
"That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you."
Trust
"When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work."
Work
"With The Omen, I really felt I wasn't in control. It was panic."
Control
"If you had the opportunity and some talent, there was no way you couldn't progress, because it was an open market. There was the advertising world, and there was the documentary world."
Talent
"I was very lucky. I started my own commercial company."
Career
"It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes."
Heroism
"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."
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"How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?"
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