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"The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage."
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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 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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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."
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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
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"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."
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"An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening."
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"Every actor I think has got their own number of takes that they like, you know. Some actors like to go all day, you know on the one scene and some actors want to take two takes. I personally like four."
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"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."
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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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"Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both."
Difference
"When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?"
Life
"The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage."
Actor
"The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out."
Artist
"The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event."
Idea
"The best time to make friends is before you need them."
Time
"You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself."
Day
"Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping."
Difficulty
"You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens."
Love
"For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a MaCaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros."
Success
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