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And it just made me realize again because I have know it for some time, that you never get comfortable in this. No matter who you are. No matter who... how successful you are. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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I did two or three plays every summer. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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I didn't have any extra money. But I can't say that I had a hard early career. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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I have worked with some great directors. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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I think is very beneficial to relax yourself so that when you are doing it you are not staggering for lines and your concentration is not on what I am going to say - but the scene itself, the character that you are talking to. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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I think that you get something for your acting from almost anything you do. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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I was very lucky in as much as I played a lot of tennis. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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I work with Sally and I can see Sally doing that. She is very aggressive. Very fun loving and charming... and pushy in a very competitive way and a very healthy way and a very good actress. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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It takes a lot of energy to teach. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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The career doesn't get any easier. A career stays tough. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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The next night I got on an airplane, and flew to New York and looked into acting schools. Four or five acting schools. One of which was the Neighborhood Playhouse, which I started at six months there after. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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There is something about New York City that in and of itself is so theatrical hat I use to think... I use to feel when I walked out of my apartment on the way to school or anywhere that I was walking out on stage. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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To tell you the truth I am hard put to think of anyone who's career was affected significantly by making all those phone calls and I must be wrong. I must be wrong! Because it has just got to pay off! (Dabney Coleman (205))


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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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When I go to where I was getting excellent parts in movies I may have taken a few too soon, too anxious to go back to work and to anxious to make another film and to succeed more. (Dabney Coleman (205))


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I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker. (Sean Connery (205))


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I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one. (Sean Connery (205))


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I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have an interest. All the Bond films had their good points. (Sean Connery (205))


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I did smoke pot a few times but nothing else. I would never inject. I'm too fond of the drink. I can go two weeks or more without it, but then I'm quite enthusiastic to get back to the taste again. (Sean Connery (205))


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I don't know anything about baseball. (Sean Connery (205))


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I don't think there is anything particularly wrong in hitting a woman, though I don't recommend you do it the same way that you hit a man. (Sean Connery (205))


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I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder. (Sean Connery (205))


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I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him. (Sean Connery (205))


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I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over. (Sean Connery (205))


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I haven't found anywhere in the world where I want to be all the time. The best of my life is the moving. I look forward to going. (Sean Connery (205))


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I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege. (Sean Connery (205))


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I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13. (Sean Connery (205))


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I like women. I don't understand them, but I like them. (Sean Connery (205))


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I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly. (Sean Connery (205))


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I never trashed a hotel room or did drugs. (Sean Connery (205))


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I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me. (Sean Connery (205))


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If America had been discovered as many times as I have, no one would remember Columbus. (Sean Connery (205))


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It's a kind of madness in cosmopolitan cities now. (Sean Connery (205))


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Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile. (Sean Connery (205))


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More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso. (Sean Connery (205))


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Perhaps I'm not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else. (Sean Connery (205))


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The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots. (Sean Connery (205))


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There are women who take it to the wire. That's what they are looking for, the ultimate confrontation. They want a smack. (Sean Connery (205))


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There is nothing like a challenge to bring out the best in man. (Sean Connery (205))


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There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing. (Sean Connery (205))


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There's one major difference between James Bond and me! He is able to sort out problems! (Sean Connery (205))


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There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic. (Sean Connery (205))


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To cultivate an English accent is already a departure away from what you are. (Sean Connery (205))


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When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious. (Sean Connery (205))


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You know, the Oscar I was awarded for The Untouchables is a wonderful thing, but I can honestly say that I'd rather have won the US Open Golf Tournament. (Sean Connery (205))


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Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that. (Sean Connery (205))


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Actually, we've done 75 of these shows and every one of them has sold out. But then we buy all the tickets. (Tim Conway (205))


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As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists. (Tim Conway (205))


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At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it. (Tim Conway (205))


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Don Knotts was a really big influence, especially on the Steve Allen show. I mean, look at the guy, his entire life is in his face. (Tim Conway (205))


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Harvey never had an original idea or thought in his life. I was out wandering around the country doing charity benefits, mainly, when I asked him to come along. (Tim Conway (205))


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I don't watch a lot of TV anymore. A lot of it isn't the kind of thing you can feel comfortable with watching with your kids. And I still feel that way even though, now, my kids are in their 30s. (Tim Conway (205))


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I figure you're only here for a matter of moments. Ever since I was a kid watching movies I've always wanted to make people laugh or have some sort of emotional reaction. (Tim Conway (205))


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I like to work a lot with wood. I make furniture that falls apart. I also sew. (Tim Conway (205))


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I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team. (Tim Conway (205))


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I've never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it. (Tim Conway (205))


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If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life. (Tim Conway (205))


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My career is pretty much over. I'm out in the Valley eating soft-boiled eggs. (Tim Conway (205))


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Nowadays they have 12 directors and 15 producers and 30 writers. And all the writers want their lines said a certain way-which isn't necessarily funny. I mean the lines aren't necessarily so funny to begin with. (Tim Conway (205))


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People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words. (Tim Conway (205))


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We kept a broad audience, and we didn't make fun of people who had necessarily made mistakes in their life and burned them to the ground. We made fun of a commercial or a movie or ourselves. (Tim Conway (205))


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When I watch TV, I'm embarrassed by some of what's on. (Tim Conway (205))


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You can't TV surf without coming across an Andy of Mayberry episode where you've just got to watch Don as Barney. That's why I put Don in several of my movies. (Tim Conway (205))


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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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A nice, steady job I don't need that bad. I'm not that satisfied with it. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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But I want to do good work, after this series. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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But the working I would always want to do. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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I hope this series is good work, but it is in the half-hour medium, which is limited to a kind of mediocrity that sponsors are just dying to have right now, and the public, for some reason, is unconsciously demanding. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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If it's boring, then it's tiring. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work? (Jackie Cooper (205))


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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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There was only so much television you could do. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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Well, they just don't know anything else except that one form of their business, acting, and they don't really want to learn any other part of it, or they would. Directing and producing and putting a show together is very creative, for me. (Jackie Cooper (205))


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