"I don't have to do anything. The character is shaped on the page."
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"Working on stage is really a great voice developer."
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"I was a B student in math, simply because my teachers liked me, as an actor."
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"I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies."
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"I don't think you're going to get nominated every time you jump out of the box."
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"A scientist sounds like a scientist because the things that come out of their mouth don't stumble, that's all. If they [said], "And the, um, a microwave, uh," you know, then you don't sound right, but if you can just get it out without stumbling then you're going to sound fine."
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"I am impatient with directors who don't know what they want, and the way you don't know what they want is because they want to do one more. "Let's do one more." So, "What for?" I guarantee you there's not going to be a change."
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"Hey, if I don't have a job, I don't know why I bother to get up. Any time the phone rings, I'm ready to go. What else am I going to do? See, I've never retired. I don't even know what it means."
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"Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty"
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"That is a big turn-on for me, a director who knows what he's doing and what he wants, and knows when he's gotten what he wants."
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"My roots were pretty far removed from high income. It's interesting to be back there at the level of income I have now, at this stage in my life."
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"When I was a kid, I was a cowboy. I had a cap pistol, and I'd get up in the morning and strap it on before I got ready."
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"I have four children and nine grandchildren. I'm presently wearing out my second wife."
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"I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy."
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"Stage is really hard work. You've got to do it every night. Not like doing it once and walking away."
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"If I wasn't acting, I have no clue what I'd be doing 'cause I have no other talent."
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"I remember saying to my agent, "Listen, everybody's going out to Hollywood and making movies. I think I ought to go out there." And his advice to me was, "I wouldn't do that if I were you. If they want you in Hollywood, they'll send you." And sure enough, they did."
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"I got my first job as a card-carrying actor in New York in 1967. Before that, I was a very desperate wannabe."
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"I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat."
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"I've travelled a lot, but I am essentially American. All my input has been American."
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