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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."
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"It's finding those nonsensical pieces of conversation that we all do all the time. We do all the time. When we're talking on the telephone, there are arguments with people who agree when they both think that they disagree."

"I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that."

"I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show."

"I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs."

"When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came."

"Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time."

"First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct."

"Craig Nelson who is an actor and is in a show called Coach in the United States. We began to do some improvisational stuff and we used to get laughs and things."

"I'm thinking, this is Robert Redford. You know, he's won an Academy Award, he's talking to me about directing a movie he's in. So you just think that it's Hollywood stuff or whatever."
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