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John Rich
"I never plotted anything. I never wrote anything down. It was always in my head. It's the only way to do it. Otherwise, you get nailed to a formula that you think may work. What happens if the actor doesn't like it? I used to let the actors run the first reading on its feet.  I'd say, 'you guys do it. Let me see it.' And they would do some things that would be good; but, they'd fall apart and say 'help'. I would step in and say, 'save this, save that. The impulse to go there is correct, but don't do this....'"
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Mary Tyler Moore

"My grandfather once said, having watched me one entire afternoon, prancing and leaping and cavorting, 'This child will either end up on stage or in jail.' Fortunately, I took the easy route."

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Don Knotts
"I think it requires being conscious of timing and conscious of your straight man. Andy and I, in essence, I was really being a second banana. Not that Andy played it that funny, but he had jokes. Not jokes, but he had some humor to his character. It's just all part of comedy."
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Ron Howard
"At the end of the day it doesn't matter how much money people are being paid or how many trucks you have on the sidelines. What'd you get inside the frame? That's all I care about."
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Leonard Stern
"Everything doesn't have to read funny to be played as a first-rate comedy -- it's in the interpretation... Gleason used to say, 'if it's funny, it's never going to go out of style because it makes you laugh'."
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Barbara Feldon

"I'd like to be remembered as someone who led their life fully. Not just in one area, but someone who lived her days with enthusiasm and curiosity. I think if you have curiosity and you live with enthusiasm, you have a life better than any star you know could possibly dream of having."

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Valerie Harper
"I like a lot of preparation because when you get to the moment, you can just forget your lines, you're not thinking, 'what's my line?' you're feeling what the character is, and only that line can come out."
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Robert Guillaume
"One of the things I was trying to avoid was dignity, that terrible term that you're either a buffoon if you're black or you play it with dignity. I hated that idea because I knew that dignity did not make people laugh. I wanted desperately to make people laugh. So I found a way to say what I was going to say in the script without demeaning black people or myself. At the same time, I found a way to do comedy that I don't think many blacks had found before that -- that you could be yourself and make people laugh."
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Phylicia Rashad
"I had learned to stop focusing so much on what I thought other people were thinking.  And to really try to find some level of truth inside myself in every moment of what I was doing."
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Rue McClanahan

"This was funny. These were great characters. We had a great hit on our hands I knew it. Betty White was always astounded.  She'd say, 'we got picked up for another 13!'  I'd say, 'Betty, join the real world.  This is a big hit.'" 

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Jack Lemmon
"Truthfully, you can't be remembered as the best actor. Because you never are going to be the best, there is also no such thing as the best. What there is, is a lot of very good actors, which I hope to be one of, that at the right time in their life, with the right part, can give a performance that nobody else can give. There's a lot of them. And it happens."