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"In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with."
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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

"You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom."

"Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take."

"I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously."

"It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being."
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"The Palestinians need more help from the Arab countries. Since 1967, the world has learned that there is not going to be real progress in the region until Palestine gets something back that they had."

"I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then."

"Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing."

"The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge."

"The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life."

"When I was starting to get noticed as an actor in the 1970s for something other than the third cowboy on the right who ended up dying in every movie or episode, Burt Reynolds was the biggest star in the world."

"I've always thought that if Israel really wanted to solve the problem, they'd just start tomorrow and push right to the Jordan River, and anything in their way goes. They don't need America or someone else to help."

"In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with."
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