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Ray Walston

"I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor."

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Donna Grant

"I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can."

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Donna Grant

"One of the reasons to do documentaries is that. There's more sense of creating something, more sense of my own soul in the documentaries than in movies, because I don't write the movies I do."

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Donna Grant

"I didn't know what types of movies I wanted to do. I want to do things that are different. I want to take my time with each role."

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Donna Grant

"I don't even know what TV star means. I know there's a difference in how people approach you, compared to movies. They feel OK coming up to you and sitting with you in a restaurant, unfortunately."

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Donna Grant

"Some movies get rushed out right after you make them and I'm not always happy with that."

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Donna Grant

"I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an actor."

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Donna Grant

"Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege."

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Donna Grant

"Sure, 'Twilight' is really huge right now and everybody's freaking out over it, but it will go away soon and I will be back to doing what I'm used to doing: weird little movies that nobody sees."

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Donna Grant

"We work very cost effective and I sell my movies in 100 territories on my own."

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Donna Grant

"I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it."

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Ray Walston
"I was very conscious of the actor; watched what he did."

Actor

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Ray Walston
"I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor."

Movies

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Ray Walston
"I've often wondered, when they've done Of Mice And Men on stage, and I've seen it, how they did that gun thing. I've watched it on stage, but I don't remember it."

Men

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Ray Walston
"I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain."

Memory

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Ray Walston
"If it's not in New York, let's say it's in St. Louis, then they've got to find a place or get with someone who knows about the work... they've got to find a place like that and do scenes, and then try to get in plays."

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Ray Walston
"If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody."

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Ray Walston
"But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor."

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Ray Walston
"I didn't study acting."

Acting

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Ray Walston
"I don't see all the movies that come out."

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Ray Walston
"I don't watch television."

Television

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