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“I had neither a mother’s love nor a father’s authority.”
“My first paying role was in a Jewish repertory company stage production on Second avenue.
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I had three words of dialogue.
I had to come out on stage, looking grim and say, ‘Nothing will help’ in Yiddish.
After the fourth night I was fired.
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I guess it was my lousy Yiddish.”
“You know where I got my idea of Randall?
From a copy I knew in New York.
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There was no monkey business with him.
When he said he’d shoot, he meant it.
Well, I think of him and pretty soon I’m Josh Randall.”
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“Sometimes, I can’t believe what’s happened to me.
Man, I can’t get used to it.
I could have easily wound up behind the eight ball.”
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“I try not to take myself too seriously.
I believe today’s audiences are smart and that you have the responsibility to articulate apart.
I mean, I don’t look at it as play acting.”
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