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There are many films in which minority groups are caricatured to the point where truth is all together lost. There are many more films, good in general, but untrue in their presentation of the Negro's life as totally divorced from the Caucasian's or the Caucasian's from the Negro.

~John Garfield

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Must I tell the story of my life again?

~John Garfield

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Reading is important.

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I did a lot of jobs when I was a kid - paper boy, grocery boy, all those things. I guess maybe I got a point of view then.

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I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers.

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When I think back, the neighbors were always sayin', 'Oh, that poor Julie, that poor orphan.' I loved it. The Italians would invite me in for dinner - it was an Italian neighborhood mostly. Oh, I loved it.

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To my surprise, I discovered that I could act, and I liked it even better than boxing.

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I always wanted to be in the limelight, and I found I could get it by being on the stage. That was the beginning of everything for me.

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There was a revolution going on at home. Why didn't I earn some money? Why didn't I do something practical, like chicken farming?

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I didn't learn anything about acting until I joined the Group Theatre. They taught me an entirely new approach, an entirely new technique.

~John Garfield

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: March 4th, 1913

Died: May 21st, 1952

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