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"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
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"It's an acting job - acting natural."
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"Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene."
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"When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma."
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"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."
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"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."
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"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it."
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"Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning."
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"And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."
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"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."
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"I don't like acting things; I like feeling things."
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"I used to think then that I was Bohemian, but I know now that I am not. I prefer order and precision to untidiness and looseness."
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"I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul."
Business
"Have you ever walked late at night through a forest when you are first in love?"
Love
"After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad."
Mother
"I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them."
Art
"Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough."
Expectation
"So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning."
Life
"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
Acting
"I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me."
Possibility
"For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning."
Winning
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