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"I don't know what else I could do but pretend to be an actor."
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"The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage."
"The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow."
"The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don't have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore."
"As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive."
"Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor."
"An actor is an actor is an actor. The less personality an actor has off stage the better. A blank canvas on which to draw the characters he plays."
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