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"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."
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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."

"I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it."

"It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera."

"I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor."

"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."

"That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth."

"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."
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"This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured."

"I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on."

"Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?"

"Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this."

"I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing."

"This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted."

"But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work."

"I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield."
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