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"To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages."
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"My favorite actor is Wallace Beery."
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"But here I am today recording this and I'm in the studio with all the others on a clean mic. It's extraordinary, the actor's found a way of doing it for himself."
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"I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right."
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"When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully."
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"We have too many actors for the jobs available."
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"Dates with actors, finally, just seemed to me evenings of shop talk. I got sick of it after a hile. So the more famous I became, the more I narrowed down my choices."
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"Being a working actor, you're going to do a Spelling show. It's hard not to."
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"It does make you a better director and a better actor."
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"The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process."
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"David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists."
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"From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life."
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"My father was an ardent socialist for many years."
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"To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages."
Actor

"We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany."
Germany

"At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth."
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"1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too."
Art

"Unfortunately I put the opening date on the 5th of December 1941 and on the 7th of December the Japanese bombarded Pearl Harbour. My dream of a theater in Washington D.C. came to a prompt end."
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"It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor."
Life

"A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak."
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"I was put in the Air Corps. I was never educated to serve in the military, but soon my activities in the American Air Corps became very interesting to me."
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