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"Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor."
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"The progression of roles you take strings together a portrait of an actor, but it's a completely random process."

"I think I did have fantasies about being an actor. In fact, I know I did."

"Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that."

"Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has."

"That's probably the biggest secret of acting: If the actor believes it themselves, they can make you believe it."
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"You asked what is the secret of a really good sketch. And it is a sketch is a small play. It's got a beginning, and a middle and an end. It should have a plot; it should have the characters, conflict. It is a little play. And in it, will be funny stuff."

"I wish there was something that - I get all those wonderful letters and wonderful acknowledgments, and I wish I could be more appreciative of what I do. But it's hard for me."

"And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on."

"But there's a lot of 50's and a lot of boomers and a lot of kids in their 30's that grew up with us."

"Although in Abbott and Costello, and straight man was first. That's a very interesting concept."

"And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure."
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