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"What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor."
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"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."
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"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."
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"There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me."
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"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."
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"I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors."
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"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."
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"The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover."
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"One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor."
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"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."
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"A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered."
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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
"An actor remembers his first piece of published praise. It is written on his heart."
Heart
"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
"What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor."
Actor
"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
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