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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."
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"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."

"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."

"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."

"Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough."

"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."

"I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me."

"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."

"I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor."

"I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first."
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