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"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

"I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that."

"There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them."

"In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk."

"You have to pretend to live in those clothes that they lived in, to live within the climate that they had then. You have to imagine with the help, obviously, of all the other technicians that are around - the writer, the director, the other actors."

"It's a lot easier, I think, to be an actor in a movie than to spin a joke on a sitcom."
Explore more quotes by Gloria Stuart

"When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long."

"Claude Rains was what we call an actor's actor. He was very involved with himself and his performance."

"It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair."

"I wanted to be a theater actress, but I thought it would be easier to get to New York and the theater if I had a name than if I just walked the streets as a little girl from California."

"The John Ford pictures I made are highly regarded, but at the time they didn't seem like that."
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