"Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do"
"The first time that I appeared on stage, it scared me to death. I really didn't know what all the yelling was about. I didn't realize that my body was moving. It's a natural thing to me. So to the manager backstage I said, "What'd I do? What'd I do?" And he said, "Whatever it is, go back and do it again.""
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Source: Interview Magazine (March/April 1972); later quoted in Jane Ellen Wayne The Leading Men of MGM (p. 406), February 17, 2005.
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