- Bond
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not enough magic in a bloodline to forge an instant, irrevocable bond.
- Road
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- Nov 07, 2020
You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him.
- Dance
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
- Learned
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- Nov 07, 2020
We children learned responsibility automatically.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
The goal wasn't to be a millionaire or to be a Hollywood star. That was not the goal. The goal was something about - the goal was to find the goal, but I knew where it was.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.
- If I Could
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- Nov 07, 2020
So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.
- Drama
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- Nov 07, 2020
So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I was determined to use my last two years in college doing something I thought I would enjoy, which was acting. And it was probably because there was girls over in the drama school too, you know?
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.
- Nov 07, 2020
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
One day, my youngest uncle - the other one who was first to go to college, Randy - and I were sitting out on the front porch. And he was brilliant. He ended up - he just retired from Boeing Aircraft in Wichita, Kansas.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
My youngest uncle Randy and I were the first members of our entire family to ever go to college.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go back the other direction for my sanity, and for my ability to be a social human being.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
More and more, when I single out the person out who inspired me most, I go back to my grandfather.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has to be real, and I think a lot of the problems we have as a society is because we don't acknowledge that family is important, and it has to be people who are present, you know, and mothers and fathers, both are not present enough with children.
- Citrus
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was preparing myself for the theater, and... I got a little job here and a job there, but it wasn't going well, and I considered some time before the mid-60s that maybe I should consider something else.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an adopted child of my grandparents, and I don't know how I can ever express my gratitude for that, because my parents would have been a mess, you know.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the extent to which I have any balance at all, any mental balance, is because of being a farm kid and being raised in those isolated rural areas.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really think I ambled through a lot of my life, or ambled from one thing to the other.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I happened to happened to land in a time, in the middle '60s, that without knowing it, and without being told by the history of theater - which we now see from a historical point of view was an explosive time.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.
- Realist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before my grandpa built his own church, we went to the neighboring town, and it was a white community. You know, up north, mostly middle European people and Indians, Chippewa Indians. We were welcome to that church, but once we got in, they didn't know what to do with us.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
And it was the idea that you can do a play - like a Shakespeare play, or any well-written play, Arthur Miller, whatever - and say things you could never imagine saying, never imagine thinking in your own life.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.
- Explain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will loose.
- Laughter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stuttering is painful. In Sunday school, I'd try to read my lessons, and the children behind me were falling on the floor with laughter.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think stutterers are funny. And I know it's rude and politically incorrect to laugh at stutterers. But I think it is okay because I know why they're funny. They make people nervous. People think, when on earth are they going to get the word out, so they start laughing out of their own nervousness.
- Nov 07, 2020
People who lusted after Marilyn Monroe had no idea she stuttered. It is the secret of her sexiness, actually.
- Journey
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- Nov 07, 2020
Denzel Washington, Sidney Poitier, Robert Redford, Tom Cruise: those guys have well-planned careers. I'm just on a journey. Wherever I run across a job, I say, 'Okay, I'll do that.'
- Enough Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love doing commercials! Usually, they have enough money that they can take time and photograph it well.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
There haven't been enough profound things written about what being black means and what a black character is. Nobody knows.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot be an actor like I am and not have been in some of the worst movies like I have. But I stand before you deeply honored, mighty grateful and just plain gobsmacked.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to see actors' work. I love to surf channels late at night and accidentally run into movies I hadn't seen before. It makes me very proud of the profession.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think self-criticism is sort of a given when you're an actor. It's also about being curious and not being flippant. Anyone who accepts being in this noble profession is automatically self-critical.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actors never discuss future plans.
- Consider
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- Nov 07, 2020