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"The worst thing for an actor is a director that gets on your nerves and says things that actually confuse you."

"I do think that good actors can do any part. It doesn't mean that they are the best ones to do it."

"It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera."

"I phoned this number and said, Please, sir, I want to be an actor."

"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."

"That's one of the reasons I wanted to be an actor, to be like them. And there they were at my table, all talking about how nervous they were, about the lines, and so forth. No matter how big you get, you still have the same kinds of anxieties and so forth."

"There is some mysterious thing that goes on whereby, in the process of playing Shakespeare continuously, actors are surprised by the way the language actually acts on them."
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"A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line."

"American people have the ability to laugh at themselves. It is one of the things that makes this country the great country that it is."

"Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it."

"I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude."

"Everyone seemed to be doing well except me and my career. And my accent was no helping me any."

"When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against us."

"The success of I Love Lucy is something that happens only once in a lifetime, if you are fortunate enough to have it happen at all."

"My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America."
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