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" Acting doesn't suffice. "
Acting
Suffice
" Acting is something I love. "
Love
I Love
Acting
" Anyway, when I was a kid, I dutifully went to the Sydney Technical and Fine Arts College. "
Arts
College
Anyway
" Apart from being interested in a good role, I think it's necessary to make up your mind as to whether it will make a movie that will entertain an audience all over the world and not just in your own backyard. "
Think
Audience
Good
" Art doesn't feed me or fill the void when I am not working. If I haven't worked for six months, I can't paint. "
Feed
Working
Paint
" But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club. "
Captain
Lot
Club
" Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name. "
Then
Studio
Head
" I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them. "
Artist
I Am
Feet
" I am proud to be an actor. "
I Am
Am
Actor
" I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over... to have a look at me. "
Over
Well
Me
" I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture. "
Down
Bad
Good
" I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles. "
Early
Stage
Radio
" I'm not doing my work for constant success. "
Work
Success
Doing
" In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM. "
Problem
Time
Work
" I pray and try every day to be a better actor. "
Day
Better
Try
" I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me. "
Party
Night
Birthday
" I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter... were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky. "
First
Get
Lucky
" I worked at Mark Foy's during the day and studied drama at night. "
Day
Drama
Mark
" I wouldn't dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities. "
Dream
Give
Selling
" So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that's how it all started. "
Audition
Radio
Started
" The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others. "
Going
Pretty
Fact
" The most important thing in my life is my work. "
Important
Life
Work
" To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed. "
Large
Those
Degree
" To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer. "
Same
Yourself
You
" When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building. "
Actor
Building
Insurance
" When people think it's successful, I'm grateful. When they don't - OK, I'll try again. "
Think
People
Try
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