"I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible"
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"I made a classic mistake. I held out for something better."
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"Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another"
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"What I do is not some magical, mystical thing. I simply get up in the morning, get to work on time, say my lines, and do the best I can"
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"If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong."
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"In 1942, everyone was ready to go and fight for the good guys. It was so simple."
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"In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing."
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"I don't know if kids still read it, I just know that for me - as a boarding school kid - the book had a lot of resonance. It was a well written book. I was honored to play a part in that movie version."
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"I never thought of myself as being that good looking, I was an actor, people saw me on television, and then they start to think you're good looking because of that presentation. I was no better looking before the show, than after - and before the TV show I couldn't get a date to save my life. So what changed? Did I suddenly become more good looking? No. I got lucky, I got a TV show. That's what happened."
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"Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17"
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"What I hear all the time is to stop and listen. When you do a scene 30 times, and know the lines, you stop listening. The point is to listen, that's the only thing that can make it real."
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"My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture"
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"I still think of myself really as a New Yorker"
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"I'm more interested in where I'll be in five or 10 years than where I am now"
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