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I had great qualms about playing a man who was living. I've never met Walt McCandless, and I never will. ”
When you are a kid, you are beset by fears, and you think, 'I'll solve the fear by living forever and becoming a movie star.' ”
There's fear or faith. If you're living by fear, then you're always looking for security. If you're living by faith, then you're always looking for freedom. ”
The enemies of acting are mood and attitude and other general homogenized disruptive entities. Whereas acting is about action - doing - and unless you can figure out a way to craft in an imaginative reality to which you don't submit, you're going to be out of control. You'll flip out. The job is to be surprised. ”
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God. ”
Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law. ”
Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. ”
To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. ”
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die. ”
When I was in New York, I was making a living. We had a summer house and a car that I could put in a garage. That's something for a stage actor. ”