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"The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough."
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"I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City."

"But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't."

"No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do."

"I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting."

"To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off!"

"When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more."
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"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."

"The purpose of employment is not to make money."

"Joblessness gives you time to grow."

"Life experience is the new work experience."

"Having a job is being busy."

"Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J."

"I should never have been happy in any profession that did not call forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm contact with my neighbors. There is nothing like the medical profession for that: one can have the exclusive scientific life that touches the distance and befriend the old fogie in the parish too."

"When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's."

"Your professional experience can strengthen your resume, increase your earning potential, prove dependability, instill trust, and open new doors of opportunity which would remain closed otherwise."
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