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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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"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 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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"The eye searches for shapes. It searches for a beginning, a middle, and an end."
Beginning

"If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience."
Experience

"Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal."
Reality

"Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge."
Knowledge

"Better to die in the pursuit of civilized values, we believed, than in a flight underground. We were offering a value system couched in the language of science."
Science

"Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge."
Power

"Young people ask me if this country is serious about science. They aren't thinking about the passport that they will hold, but the country that they must rely on for support and encouragement."
Science

"The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science."
Science

"Today, Academies of Science use their influence around the world in support of human rights."
Science

"The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight."
Actor
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