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"Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting."
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"I'm not one to dwell on rehearsal or preparation."
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"And after you've done the acting, there's a lot of places you can put your input - in the editing, in the production of it, in the rewriting of it and so on."
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"But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting."
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"When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy."
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"I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling."
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"In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic."
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"I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do."
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"Everyone thinks acting is easy. It's far from easy, but it's the most gratifying thing I do."
Acting
"Yes, I won the Bafta. I thought the British were very intelligent."
Thought
"I've worked with wonderful actors like Marlon Brando and Henry Fonda."
Actor
"I met my wife and, for the next ten years, we did no films at all. She did the first movie and then I did several after. My first movie was written by Tennessee Williams and directed by Kazan and was called Baby Doll."
Wife
"And then the first was The Misfits, which I enjoyed very much, with Marilyn and Gable."
First
"I'd come out of the army after five years as a medic. I was a medical administrator and we ran hospitals, and I was a Captain in the army at the end, in 1945."
Medical
"The big secret in acting is listening to people."
People
"I've learned that life is very tricky business: Each person needs to find what they want to do in life and not be dissuaded when people question them."
Life
"But Clint I love, because Clint was my mentor. I knew nothing about making an Italian movie."
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"My first Western was called The Magnificent Seven."
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