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I did 12 shows in 13 weeks at a summer theater in Maine where we were paid $35 a week. After taxes and $25 for room and board, I had enough money for a pack of cigarettes and a bowl of lobster bisque.
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I've got so many stories about every film and show I've ever been in.
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An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.
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For my generation of actors, it was about the theatre. Television didn't exist. Coaxial cable didn't exist.
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The year I got into The Actors Studio, Steve McQueen and I were the only two accepted that whole year.
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I don't know anybody who's any good who isn't nuts.
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I felt I knew Lugosi. Like him, I had worked for good directors and terrible directors.
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Life is a roller coaster. There are ups; there are downs. There are hills; there are valleys, peaks, and so on.
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Great teachers are the ones who inspire you.
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All 'Hamlets' are different, and it's the most overwritten play ever written.
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My mantra is 'stay perpendicular.' Horizontal is not as good.
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I can take scripts directly to actors. Agents don't like to hear that.