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" An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet. "
Life
Fact
Accept
" Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done. "
Good
Easy
Done
" Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. "
Actor
World
You
" But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds. "
Picture
Behavior
Reach
" Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries. "
Life
Die
You
" Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. "
Live
Die
Dream
" I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed. "
Appreciate
Nature
Now
" I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't want to have to give anybody seventy; I don't want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty. "
Me
Good
Always
" If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man. "
Man
Life
Great
" I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how people stay in the same room with me. I know I wouldn't tolerate myself. "
See
Myself
Devil
" I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too. "
Picture
Parents
Kids
" I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day. "
24 Hours
Want
Day
" My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society. "
Life
Include
Charm
" Only the gentle are ever really strong. "
Strength
Only
Gentle
" Racing is the only time I feel whole. "
Whole
Feel
I Feel
" Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. "
Help
Studying
Character
" The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results. "
Gratification
Doing
Results
" The only greatness for man is immortality. "
Man
Greatness
Immortality
" The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen. "
Way
You
Only
" There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning. "
Great
World
Way
" To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. "
Problem
Dedication
Duty
" To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. "
Great
Way
People
" To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle. "
He
Before
Actor
" Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated. "
You
Belief
Must
" When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. "
Way
Acting
Actor
" You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball. "
Be Yourself
Done
You
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