Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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