So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

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They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.

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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

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I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the director was.

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They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.

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People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.

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I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought he was Daddy, but he didn't treat you like Daddy at all.

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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.

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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.

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