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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."
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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."
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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."
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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
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"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."
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"An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening."
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"Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four."
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"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."
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"I'm a good actor in that sense for directors because I always do what they say."
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"I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't."
Love

"If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession."
Actor

"I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in."
England

"I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most."
Love

"We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary."
Heart

"Awards don't really mean much."
Awards

"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."
Acting

"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."
Shakespeare

"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."
Censorship

"Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often."
Theatre
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