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"There was only so much television you could do."
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"Television's not going read stories to you."
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"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."
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"Directing television is really hard - it's so fast. You shoot an hour show in seven days."
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"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."
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"I do still like television very much, but the theatre does really have something special about it."
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"I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."
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"Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it."
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"I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories."
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"I don't think we use television the way we should or the way the inventors intended."
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"I'd never seen any television before I started."
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"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

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

"They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it."
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"People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them."
People

"But I want to do good work, after this series."
Work

"So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do."
Money

"They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph."
Beginning

"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."
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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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