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"I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor."
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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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"Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies."
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"No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did."
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"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."
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"I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people."
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"I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people."
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"I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business."
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"We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman."
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"I didn't believe that I'd ever be lucky enough to be able to make a living as an actor."
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"I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way."
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"You are not an active creator of the film."
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