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James Coburn

"It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs."

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"It's an acting job - acting natural."

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"Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene."

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"When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma."

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"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past."

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"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."

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"I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it."

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"Acting is invigorating. But I don't analyse it too much. It's like a dog smelling where it's going to do its toilet in the morning."

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"And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."

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"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."

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"I don't like acting things; I like feeling things."

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James Coburn
"First job I went out on in new York I got, and when I came back, the first job I went out on, I got."

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James Coburn
"It was the desire to do the complete thing. I only took taking acting lessons because my whole thing, really, was to direct. But my first jobs were acting jobs."

Acting

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James Coburn
"Taking in and blowing out smoke? And now you see girls smoking cigars. It got to be such a fad. Girls on the covers of magazines, smoking cigars. Give me a break. I didn't want to be a part of that. I don't like "popular.""

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James Coburn
"Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation. NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a voice or two. Anyway, I find it abhorrent."

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James Coburn
"The Magnificent Seven was really kind of a miraculous event that took place in my life."

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