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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."
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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."
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"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."
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"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."
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"I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by."
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"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."
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"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"
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"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."
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"TV is very much a producer and writer or creator-driven machine in the States. And I'm the kind of actor that needs to be pushed and have someone on my case a little bit, so I suffer from that."
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"Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor."
Humor
"Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns."
Work
"I turned into a workaholic to the point of where my health was in jeopardy."
Health
"I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful."
Regret
"A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life."
Life
"People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting."
People
"I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy."
Mother
"The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult."
People
"People believe what they want to believe."
People
"I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall."
Work
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