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"There was only so much television you could do."
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"I don't have anything from the television series. I treasure the videotapes from Columbia House."

"We took the whole thing far too seriously. After all, those were early days in television."

"I am currently talking to one of the studios about making American Star as a TV series."

"I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling."

"In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot."

"Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it."

"It is ridiculous that somebody picks up the phone and calls somebody they see on television. Why don't they call somebody in their area? Don't they know about that?"

"Even as voters, we try to keep up with the guys as much as possible, mainly through television or ESPN."

"Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them."

"I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years."
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"They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it."

"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."

"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."

"I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked."

"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."

"The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out."
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