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You have to be prepared for all the awful things that happen to actors, the rejection, humiliation, and embarrassment and receiving bad reviews if you do get a job. You have to be prepared for all of that.

— Walter Slezak

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Spending money you don't have for things you don't need to impress people you don't like.

I never lie unless it is absolutely necessary. Or convenient.

What Time's the Next Swan? (1962)

I don't know if that character trait was deplorable or laudable; I only know that I have never been able to lose it.

What Time's the Next Swan? (1962)

After America had entered the war in December 1941 all postal service with Germany and Austria was stopped. But Papa had faithfully kept on writing to me, a ten-page letter nearly every week.

What Time's the Next Swan? (1962)

You have to work five or six years in the theatre—in hit shows—to make people sick and tired of you, but this you can accomplish in only a few weeks on television. It's a remarkable medium.

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