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"They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it."
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"It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up."

"I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all."
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