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Dick York

"When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was."

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"When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was."

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"We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building."
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"I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit."
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"I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted."
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"I'm trying to go over my lines. I woke up on the floor, somebody had me in their arms. I didn't quite know who, people looked so unfamiliar. That's about all I remember."
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"I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things."
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"Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit."
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"I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work."
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"I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do."
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