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Quotes by Actor
"I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will."
60
"One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax."
60
"They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed."
60
"It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife."
60
"Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror."
60
"Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute."
60
"In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties."
60
"I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really."
60
"If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible."
60
"I know, because I tried all sorts of ways of being in character, and the best way is to be totally straight."
60
"Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not."
60
"I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then."
60
"We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins."
60
"She's a cool ghost. Maybe me being nude all the time is why we get along."
60
"The Shades never recorded anything, Little Daddy and the Bachelors recorded a couple of records, ya."
60
"Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about."
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60
"That is a big danger, losing your inspiration. When I work in film and television I try to do each take a little differently. I never want to do the same thing twice, because then you're not being spontaneous, you're just recreating something."
60
"To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!"
60
"My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger."
60
"Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position."
59
"We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story."
59
"We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually."
59
"When I'm trying to go to sleep and there are little noises, like a clock ticking or a fan squeaking, it drives me completely insane."
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