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Sydney Pollack

"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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Donna Grant

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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Donna Grant

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

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Donna Grant

"I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent."

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Donna Grant

"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."

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Donna Grant

"A lot of actors don't like to see how they've done every day."

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Donna Grant

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

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Donna Grant

"Being an actor means being an instrument for someone else. I want to give myself completely."

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Donna Grant

"Being a film actor is very different from a theatre actor."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I was a terrible actor. The analytical part of my mind never quite let go."

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Sydney Pollack
"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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Sydney Pollack
"No, I never went to college. Always regretted it, always envied people who did."

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Sydney Pollack
"And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing."

Acting

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Sydney Pollack
"I've produced my own films for twenty years now - it means I have to talk to less people."

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Sydney Pollack
"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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Sydney Pollack
"I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business."

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Sydney Pollack
"We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman."

Creativity

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Sydney Pollack
"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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Sydney Pollack
"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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Sydney Pollack
"You are not an active creator of the film."

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