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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."
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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."
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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."
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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
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"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."
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"An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening."
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"Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four."
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"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."
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"I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say."
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"Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken."
Career
"People want their 15 minutes and are willing to do anything to get it."
People
"After this whole acting thing is over and done, you eventually have to be human. Some people are never human. It's very weird."
People
"My act is so completely and totally uncensored that the only way I could really pull it off is if I treat the audience like they're my best friends."
Act
"The audience changes every night. You're the same person. You have to speak your mind and do the stuff that you think is funny and makes you laugh."
Funny
"If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time."
Time
"I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking."
Funny
"It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in."
Time
"Apartment living is tough action. Just the whole idea that you share a washer and dryer always freaked me out."
Idea
"I really never had any ambitions to be a standup comic. I was talked into it by guys that I used to work out with."
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