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The camera lens or the television camera is still just a proscenium arch. And as a great old character actor once said to me, wherever you're acting, you reach up and take hold of the proscenium arch, and you pull it down around your shoulders.

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In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.

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All the media have their own award presentations.

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Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.

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For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.

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I've done my best to avoid B pictures.

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I've never been typed. John Wayne played 'that guy' all the time - mostly because that's all he could do. Gable played Gable parts, and Bob Taylor played Bob Taylor parts, whether he was in armor or a full-dress suit. I resisted that.

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I have always had confidence in my own ability.

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Isn't it odd that you have to keep proving you're alive?

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I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: June 8th, 1918

Died: March 21st, 1987

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