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"And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors."
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"And I'd watch George C. Scott from backstage. He was one of my mentors."
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"I love this company. I don't know how it was selected. It's a bunch of machers. They mean business."
"My education was doing good plays and also stinkers. When you do a stinker, you learn how to act. I like having to audition. It's nice to do rehearsals. But it's with an audience that you get to love it!"
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"I remember going to Bob Preston's dressing room because I was losing a laugh - as you do in a long run. He said, 'Give me the script. That's where you're going off the road.' That's comedy. It's never the line itself; it's in the foundation."
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