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

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"I did two or three plays every summer."

Summer

"When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more."

Movies

"There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage."

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"The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough."

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"But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year."

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"I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to."

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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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"I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career."

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"But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something."

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"I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress."

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