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"A Dumont actor was considered to be too stilted - the way we Dumont actors used to speak."
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"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."
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"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."
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"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."
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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."
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"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."
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"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."
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"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."
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"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."
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"The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers."
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"I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go."
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"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."
Dream
"It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession."
Difference
"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."
American
"Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew."
Change
"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
"It was one of the great chances in my life to become a Dumont actor."
Life
"My father was an ardent socialist for many years."
Father
"Directors and producers were afraid of a Dumont actor while at the same time they admired him."
Time
"To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages."
Actor
"The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre."
Mother
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