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I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.

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People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.

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Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.

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You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.

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When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

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We children learned responsibility automatically.

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The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

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So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

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So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?

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So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: January 17th, 1931

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