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"I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible."
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"There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls."
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"There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles."
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"I used to listen to country and western and blues, John Lee Hooker, spirituals, the Bluegrass Boys, and Eddie Arnold. There was a radio station that come on everyday with country, spirituals, and the blues."
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"And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here."
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"Once a week we go to juvenile hall and talk to boys there. Just go and spend a day in the juvenile courts."
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"At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again."
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"The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy."
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"The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them."
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"If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys."
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"Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle."
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"I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about."
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"The first two pictures I did, I played a young student in prep school. When I did Lifeguard, everyone was saying, You're so Southern California. It was a surprise to me."
First
"Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another."
Strangers
"If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong."
Work
"You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day."
Work
"I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want."
Vacation
"What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can."
Work
"During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot."
Time
"California lacks a lot of the rules and restrictions the East has. Every house is a different style, different material, different color. There's a lot of craziness out there."
Rules
"I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam."
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