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"One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way."
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"Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!"
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"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."
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"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."
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"There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with."
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"The glory of my name increases my shame. Less known by mortals, I could better escape their eyes."
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"I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame but I can't understand the fuss."
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"Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed."
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"A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes."
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"Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take."
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"I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness."
Now
"I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul."
Business
"Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?"
Love
"After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad."
Mother
"I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them."
Art
"Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough."
Expectation
"So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning."
Life
"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
Acting
"I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me."
Possibility
"For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning."
Winning
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