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"I didn't intend to become an actor."
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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."
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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 wanted to be a doctor when I was young. I also wanted to be a paramedic, but I always wanted to be an actor as well. I didn't have kids or something that I needed to provide for."
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"I like doing them and they're ridiculous and the actors can improvise a lot, and they don't have to be really realistic characters that hit a very specific tone as in a feature film. They're really fun, I want to make more of them definitely."
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"I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy."
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"The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards."
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"I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing."
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"Jack Nicholson is a textbook actor who's very intuitive. He is absolutely brilliant at going as far as you can go, always pushing to the edge, but still making it seem real."
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"I have lived in a flurry of images, but I will go out in a freeze frame."
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"Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them."
Love
"And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life."
Life
"Well, I mean, you have an emotion, you want to express it. You don't just look in the camera and do it. You want to hide from the embarrassment of your brother saying you're not allowed to come into my town."
Brother
"And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role."
Thought
"Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me."
Money
"I have a son in Barcelona whom I am madly in love with."
Love
"I didn't intend to become an actor."
Actor
"Oh, the Irish were building the railroads down through Mexico, through Chihuahua. They finished the railroads when they finished out in the West Coast, and they went down and put the trains into Mexico."
Building
"On the stage, you have to find truth, even if you have to lose the audience."
Truth
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