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Actingis the easiest job in the world, and I'm the luckiest guy. All I have to do isbe at the studio on time, and know my lines. The wardrobe department tells mewhat to wear, the assistant director tells me where to go, the director tellsme what to do. What could be easier?
2
For seventeen years it was Mr. Mayer [MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer] who guided me, and I never turned down apicture that he personally asked me to do.
I was this punk kid from Nebraska who had an awful lot of the world'sgood things tossed in his lap.
3
I must confess that I objected strenuously to doing Song of Russia (1944) at the time it was made. I felt that it, to my way of thinking atleast, did contain Communist propaganda.
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It'shappens that I like the people of Nebraska.They're the best, the most hospitable, the most honest, the most trustworthypeople in our whole darned country. And you lucky Nebraskans who are stillliving there just believe me. I've been a lot of places, and I have met a lotof people, and I still say Nebraskaland has the best hunting and the bestpeople in the whole country.
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[Abouthis childhood in Nebraska]I was not--I still am not--gregarious. I was then as I am now, uneasy when I amwith more than one person. I preferred being alone on the prairie or in thewoods, to playing football with the gang. After the school I didn't play withthe other kids. I liked to be alone by myself. An I was alone. I never ran witha group. I wasn't unhappy. On the contrary, I read a lot. I wasn't at all thedreamy sort. I had my horse. I had my bike. I always had a flock of animals tocare for. I just had enough to do on my own and that's how I preferred to doand be。
Actingis the easiest job in the world, and I'm the luckiest guy. All I have to do isbe at the studio on time, and know my lines. The wardrobe department tells mewhat to wear, the assistant director tells me where to go, the director tellsme what to do. What could be easier?
2
For seventeen years it was Mr. Mayer [MGM studio chief Louis B. Mayer] who guided me, and I never turned down apicture that he personally asked me to do.
I was this punk kid from Nebraska who had an awful lot of the world'sgood things tossed in his lap.
3
I must confess that I objected strenuously to doing Song of Russia (1944) at the time it was made. I felt that it, to my way of thinking atleast, did contain Communist propaganda.
4
It'shappens that I like the people of Nebraska.They're the best, the most hospitable, the most honest, the most trustworthypeople in our whole darned country. And you lucky Nebraskans who are stillliving there just believe me. I've been a lot of places, and I have met a lotof people, and I still say Nebraskaland has the best hunting and the bestpeople in the whole country.
5
[Abouthis childhood in Nebraska]I was not--I still am not--gregarious. I was then as I am now, uneasy when I amwith more than one person. I preferred being alone on the prairie or in thewoods, to playing football with the gang. After the school I didn't play withthe other kids. I liked to be alone by myself. An I was alone. I never ran witha group. I wasn't unhappy. On the contrary, I read a lot. I wasn't at all thedreamy sort. I had my horse. I had my bike. I always had a flock of animals tocare for. I just had enough to do on my own and that's how I preferred to doand be。
