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"Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week."
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"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."
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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."
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"There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me."
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"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."
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"I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors."
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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."
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"The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover."
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"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."
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"A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered."
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"Actors I admire? Ed Harris, or course, I think he's terrific; because I know he always had to fight being what he looked like a lot, but I think he's a terrific actor."
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"The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast."
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"I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams."
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"Indeed, the actor's lot is a much harder one than that of the director's, from one simple standpoint: The actor has to play the eight shows a week."
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"I believe the director's primary role is to create an atmosphere where his company can be created."
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"I have two delightful sons, who I love dearly."
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"It does make you a better director and a better actor."
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"Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt."
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"Computers rather frighten me, because I never did learn to type, so the whole thing seems extraordinarily complicated to me."
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"In the theatre, the actor is given immediate feedback."
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"In film and television we are oftentimes so pampered that the truths are withheld."
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