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"The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour."

"Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around."

"TV does a thing that film can never do. It takes you to a place that no novel written after the late 19th century can. You can just go through people's lives it's like a marriage."

"Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it."

"A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station."

"Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have."

"I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television."

"They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure."

"Gleason became like a mentor of mine. I had Gleason helping me on television, Godfrey on radio."
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"You could walk the streets, no matter how hungry people were, not matter how long they'd been out of jobs, you could walk the streets, you could ride the subways in New York, and you would not get knocked in the head."

"If they're working in a workshop somewhere, where there is, let's say, uh... only twenty people, or something like that, that's still, when they work and do a scene, that's still working in front of somebody."

"But I would like to think that it's the actor that makes the difference in these cases. Not the director, not the guy that wrote the book, not the guy that adapted it for the screen, but the actor."

"If it's not in New York, let's say it's in St. Louis, then they've got to find a place or get with someone who knows about the work... they've got to find a place like that and do scenes, and then try to get in plays."

"I've often wondered, when they've done Of Mice And Men on stage, and I've seen it, how they did that gun thing. I've watched it on stage, but I don't remember it."

"I should have been trying to build a career, rather than leaving it in the hands of somebody else."

"I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain."
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