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"At least when you're acting you can be someone. In front of the camera you have to be yourself. And who am I?"

"My favorite way of getting out of doing chores is by acting like I'm asleep. But it never works."

"I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling."

"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."

"While making Genevieve, I learned there could be a lot more to a film than just acting in it."
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"People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them."

"They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph."

"They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up."

"I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all."

"Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me."
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