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"As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive."

"Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor."

"You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap."

"I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor."

"I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile."
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"I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste."


"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."


"I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role."


"I learned denial from my mother. I just never confronted things and if anybody did, I just would go crazy."


"All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad."


"Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns."
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