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"I could not separate myself off stage from myself on stage, as so many actors can."
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"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."
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"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."
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"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."
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"Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this season's episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldn't possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood."
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"Every actor has a natural animosity toward every other actor, present or absent, living or dead."
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"I had a feeling about Shakespeare's soliloquies, that there should be a real exchange between the actor and the audience."
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"Actors are very generous."
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"Every actor wants to direct."
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"I never said, 'I'm going to be a big star.' I said, 'I'm going to be a good actor.' And that took the pressure off."
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"As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive."
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"Many people submit to excessive appetites without realizing that they do not need to eat so much food."
Food
"Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another."
Home
"An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise."
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"I could see myself in a white nurse's uniform, working unnoticed for many years and at last dying, unknown, unmarried and unsung."
Dying
"I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine."
Sympathy
"Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women."
Woman
"Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women."
Woman
"My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight."
Hair
"I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth."
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"I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of."
Work
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