"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."

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"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."

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"Once you've gotten the job, there's nothing to it. If you're an actor, you're an actor. Doing it is not the hard part. The hard part is getting to do it."

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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 was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else."

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"And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know."

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"So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department."

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"You don't build a bond without being present."

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"Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know."

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"I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other."

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"One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas."

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"I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors."

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"You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him."

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