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"When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away."
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"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."
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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."
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"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."
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"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."
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"My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?"
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"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."
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"As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions."
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"It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity."
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"I had to choose between American and British actors, and it didn't take me more than a second to decide: Russians are Europeans and should be played by other Europeans."
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"I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else."
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"I was a sort of son to Ike, and it was the other way round with Kennedy."
Family
"If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough."
God
"He is forever poised between a cliche and an indiscretion."
Diplomacy
"In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts."
Experience
"No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs."
Man
"We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts."
Skepticism
"Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth."
Growth
"When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away."
Actor
"To be alive at all involves some risk."
Risk
"Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there."
Power
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