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

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

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"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

"I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either."

Home

"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."

Age

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

Thought

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

People

"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

"Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me."

Business

"But the working I would always want to do."

Want

"In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means."

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