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You can't just run away from everything.

- Sterling Hayden

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There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status, simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue put in one's mouth by others.

At heart, I'm not an actor, I'm an accident.

I have no respect for acting where I'm concerned.

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I don't call myself a writer, much as I'd love to be. An author, maybe - the novel 'Voyage' made $870,000. Writer, no. Nor am I an actor. I was never on the stage.

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You can't just run away from everything.