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"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."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."
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"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
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"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."
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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."
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"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
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"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."
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"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."
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"I would rather miss the mark acting well than win the day acting basely."
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"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."
Acting
"Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter."
Time
"I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959."
Thought
"This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured."
Being
"For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house."
Dogs
"About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen."
Time
"I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did."
Trying
"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."
Dance
"For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems."
Problems
"I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!"
Thought
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