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I got hooked on 'All Things Considered.'
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All Things
Hooked
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It's 90 percent rejection, being an actor.
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Rejection
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That's what acting is: really make-believe.
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Make Believe
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That's what interests me about film: directing.
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Directing
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It's part of an actor's equipment to project a voice.
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Equipment
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I sort of go with the flow of what's happening on the set.
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Flow
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I had a choice whether to live or die, and I chose to live.
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Chose
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I used to just do movies for alimony purposes, between plays.
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Alimony
Purposes
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The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.
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Craft
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I don't want actors reasoning with me about 'motivation' and all that bull.
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Motivation
Reasoning
Bull
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Eugene O'Neil is always exploring our want to love but can't get it out there.
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Exploring
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To be true to a play, you can't add something that takes away from the author's intent.
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Add
Author
Be True
Intent
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It was 1939. There was no money or jobs around. I did my parents a favor and joined the Navy.
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Navy
Favor
Joined
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My father has the most tremendous personality and wonderful looks - he looks like Fredric March.
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March
Tremendous
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I love the theater because it's alive. It's a beginning, a middle and an end, and it begins a life.
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Begins
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I always wanted to act. To be with my friends. To share something with the audience about the human condition.
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Human Condition
Condition
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I almost failed one drama course. All the actors talked in phony accents. It shocked me. I went out for track instead.
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Phony
Shocked
Failed
Talked
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Once you're on, nobody can say, 'Cut it.' You're out there on your own, and there's always that thrill of a real live audience.
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Thrill
Live Audience
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As a baseball player, you know the commodity you're selling, but with acting, you wonder, 'What the hell am I doing that is so hot?'
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Baseball Player
Commodity
Selling
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An actor doesn't change thought, theme, or mood unless the character does, and the character only does it within the words of the play.
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Mood
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I've played all kinds of TV roles, from cowboys to fathers of teenagers. It's helped me a lot. Of course, I was very lucky to have had good directors.
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Cowboys
Fathers
Teenagers
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I finally realize that I have earned my happiness and what little success I have. And I'm not guilty about it any more. It just happened one day. It just came out.
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Guilty
Not Guilty
Earned
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I was a radioman first class in the Navy. I put in seven years. I was around a lot of admirals; I served on destroyers, cruisers, and a flat top for a little while.
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First Class
Navy
Little While
Served
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I have six children, and we neglect our older ones more. Because we were so busy trying to make a living, we just say hello and goodbye... I'm sure those things stick with you.
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Busy
Goodbye
Hello
Neglect
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I did a lot of violent junk just because I needed the money - alimony movies, you might call them - and then I decided to start turning down the junk scripts and wait for something better, no matter how long.
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Alimony
Junk
Scripts
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When you act, you take on the attitudes and the emotions of others. There has to be a release. Most often done in conviviality. That's why there are clubs like the Players, the Friars - in London, the Garrick.
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Clubs
Release
Attitudes
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Projection of sound gives the stage a life different from real life. As actors and interpretive artists, we must not only be able to know the attitude of the script, we must also make ourselves heard - without amplification.
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Amplification
Projection
Real Life
Interpretive
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'Iceman' covers a bigger scope than 'Long Day's Journey.' But they're both fabulous pieces of work. 'Iceman' is like a symphony. It's got all the movements, all these different voices. 'Long Day's Journey' is more like a beautiful string quartet.
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Fabulous
Scope
Symphony
Covers
Movements
Quartet
String
String Quartet
Voices
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We grow each day or don't grow. Go the other way. We're a different person all the time. The human being is something happening differently every day. That's the challenge of doing a play: using your instrument to learn and to pull out these things.
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Each Day
Time Your Day
Instrument
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Any actor worth his salt is looking for truth, the core of truth of the particular situation he is portraying, of that play. The playwright, the actors and the audience, that's what we're all there seeking. When it's working, time is destroyed. Sometimes 'Moon,' a play of four hours, would go by in a snap of the fingers.
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Destroyed
Fingers
Moon
Portraying
Salt
Seeking
Snap
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When I was little, my father was one of the biggest names in Hollywood. Suddenly - and how it happened to him was always a great mystery to me - he wasn't a star anymore; he was on the fringe. From the time I was 14, I was always conscious of a sense of worry, of terrific insecurity - agents, phony talk, the waits for the phone to ring.
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Agents
Conscious
Fringe
Phony
Terrific
Time Great Always
Time Great Me
Ring
Time Great Father
Waits
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