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I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.

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I mean, my people were very, very simple. They were peasant people, you know?

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I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

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Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.

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And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.

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And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.

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Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

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Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

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Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'

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I'd like to film a British commercial; they're better than American ones.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: January 17th, 1931

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