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The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body, you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.
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The studio people want me to do "Good-bye Charlie" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body, you know? It just doesn't seem feminine.
In Hollywood the man who cleans your pool is an actor. The man who sells you your copy of Variety is an actor. I don't think there's a real person left in the place.
Goethe said, "Talent is developed in privacy" you know? And it's really true. There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realize for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you.
I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a prince.
My credit is nothing to the United Artists. If my credit was run like that of the United Artists I would be penniless today. Any business dealings I may be forced to have with him will be done as though with a total stranger.
The film brings up questions, and I didn't want to tell people what to think. I think there will be lively discussions from this movie. It's hopefully a popcorn movie that you go and watch with your friends and then talk about afterward.
It's a Mike Nichols movie, which I thought was very serious and done in a very light, sleight-of-hand way, because I think comedy gets you into the show and makes it accessible,.
Fortunately we've been shooting in North Carolina which means we're not in la where you can hear people talking about you and you know so much about what's going on in the business.
To me style is just the outside of content, and content the inside of style, like the outside and the inside of the human body, both go together, they can't be separated.
I hated the world, 'movie' and had hated it from the first minute that I saw it in the advertising of the Majestic Company, a rival company to the Biograph with which I worked. 'A movie a minute, ' was their slogan.