"But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting."

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"I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting."

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"And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are."

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"To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!"

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"But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't."

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