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"I was dissatisfied just being an 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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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream."
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"I was fortunate as a young actor, to go straight to the RSC, where I learned that being an actor can bring with it wonderful responsibilities."
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"We've had no problems with the actors, but we keep a really loose set."
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"I'm not interested in wasting money on a project."
Money
"And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do."
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"Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it."
People
"I didn't know you had to change diapers so often. I couldn't believe it - we must change them 10 times a day - each. So that's 20 diapers a piece a day."
Change
"I would rather just do the things I want to do."
Want
"Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject."
Film
"People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that."
People
"I was dissatisfied just being an actor."
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"The constraints of melodrama can be a great blessing, because they demand that all the characters involved - as absurd and extreme as they may initially seem - must stay utterly rooted in their own reality, or the whole project collapses."
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"The majority of directors I've worked with didn't know how to talk to actors."
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