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"I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times."
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"When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully."
"The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process."
"I certainly was an actor and then I drifted more towards writing and directing."
"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 could talk about him all day. He's one of the most wonderful things that ever happened to me."
"Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked."
"I thought I was learning about show business. The more painful it was, the more important I thought the experience must be. Hating it, I convinced myself it must be invaluable."
"I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing."
"When they thought of me, they always remembered the vacuous Billie Dawn. It was as simple as that."
"Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously."
"I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes."
"I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American."
"I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward."
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