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"I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra."
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"The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster."
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"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."
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"I'm very resistant to most forms of theater."
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"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."
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"I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value."
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"Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer."
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"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."
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"With my background, I came out of the theater."
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"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."
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"I started out doing theater and a soap in New York and that's... sort of what I got stuck in. I was blessed enough to have long runs, and it's sort of hard sometimes then to get out."
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"I wouldn't care if they tattoo Festus all over. He's been good to me."
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"In this business you break a leg and 150 other people are out of work while production is shut down. It's not like you were an accountant and could still work with your leg in a cast."
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"I've thought about doing other dramatic roles besides westerns, but I grew up in the West and I know the West."
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"I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family."
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"I'd stop in the middle of a gun fight and sing a song."
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"We did some jumping at the start of the show. We went out without telling anyone - and the studio liked to kill us. They were threatened with cancellation of their production insurance."
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"I joined Tommy Dorsey at the Paramount Theater in New York as a singer. I replaced Frank Sinatra."
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