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«Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.»
«My dear boy, why don't you try acting? (on the set of 'Marathon Man', to Dustin Hoffman, who had announced that he'd gone 3 days without sleep in order to 'become' his character»
«I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.»
«Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.»
«I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book.»
«Of all the things I've done in life, directing a motion picture is the most beautiful. It's the most exciting and the nearest that an interpretive craftsman, such as an actor can possibly get to being a creator.»
«Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.»
«There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.»
«Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.»
«I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.»

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