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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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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"Generally speaking, actors are allowed NO input. Actors are dumb."
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"You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain."
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"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."
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"A lot of talented actors still have to pay their bills."
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"I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright."
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"I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be."
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"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."
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"I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different."
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"Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin."
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"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."
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"I hated the whole idea of being an actress. I used to throw up before every performance and cry afterward."
Idea
"I want a part where I can use my own hair, my own voice, and maybe even be literate."
Hair
"They weren't interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness."
Entertainment
"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."
Knowledge
"Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously."
People
"Nobody can give a good performance unless the authors and composers have written a good part, a fact which is often overlooked."
Performance
"It meant as much to me as winning the Oscar."
Winning
"I am not an 'instant' actor... to really do anything, I've got to try it five or six or a dozen times."
Actor
"It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting."
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