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"I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone."
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"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."
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"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
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"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."
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"A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one."
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"It's nice to get a response from the artists that I cover."
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"I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about."
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"That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen."
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"When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it."
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"I didn't want to be an artist."
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"Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes."
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"And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business."
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"The mask of the character was already written into the show, but I actually lobbied for a denser and more complete mask than they initially considered."
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"I just wait for something to present itself, and then I consider it."
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"My daughter is here in town doing a play, and her dog is staying with us. We live up in the hills, so he has access to thousands of acres of wilderness."
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"I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great."
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"I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone."
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"I really do the conventions now for two reasons."
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"How many times can you put together 26 different stories without running out?"
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"And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process."
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"I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people."
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