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I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

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Audiences are audiences.

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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.

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I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.

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On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

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When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

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You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.

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The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

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Every actor wants to direct.

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Biography

Nationality: Austrian

Type: Actor

Born: May 2nd, 1924

Died: July 21st, 2015

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