"There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist."

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"There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist."

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"A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job."

People

"They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it."

Thought

"So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things."

Acting

"So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder."

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"They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph."

Beginning

"The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out."

Office

"A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it."

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"So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?"

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"I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding."

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"I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all."

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