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Rod Taylor

"So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started."

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"So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started."

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"I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me."
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"I'm not doing my work for constant success."
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"I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them."
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"I am proud to be an actor."
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"I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities."
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"I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky."
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"Acting doesn't suffice."
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"When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again."
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"Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College."
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"In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM."
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