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"I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie, and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job."
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"There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent."

"I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do."

"I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy."

"There's only one shot you have at a movie, and that's your best shot. If you can't give it that, don't go. They're paying you! You gotta do a job for them."
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"Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened."
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"I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real."

"In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards."

"Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs."

"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."

"Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women."

"One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made."

"Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome."

"I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride is kind of stupid."

"We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show."
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