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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.

— Walter Slezak

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More quotes by Walter Slezak

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)

Biographies usually begin with the smack on the bottom and the first lusty cry of the subject. I deplore this literary custom, because it is impossible to remember anything about one's birth firsthand. It is bound to be hearsay, and embellished, gilded hearsay at that.

What Time's the Next Swan? (1962)

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