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American
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Actor
June 8
, 1918 -
March 21
, 1987
All the media have their own award presentations.
Robert Preston
Award
Media
Own
Acting is all I've ever done, and I've nothing else to make comparisons with when anyone asks me whether I've ever wanted anything else out of life. It's given me enough satisfaction so that I haven't wanted or had to look for anything else.
Robert Preston
Life
Me
Look
Nothing
For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.
Robert Preston
Best
Man
Stand
Poor
The camera lens or the television camera is still just a proscenium arch. And as a great old character actor once said to me, wherever you're acting, you reach up and take hold of the proscenium arch, and you pull it down around your shoulders.
Robert Preston
Me
Character
You
Great
I've done my best to avoid B pictures.
Robert Preston
Best
Pictures
Done
Avoid
I've never been typed. John Wayne played 'that guy' all the time - mostly because that's all he could do. Gable played Gable parts, and Bob Taylor played Bob Taylor parts, whether he was in armor or a full-dress suit. I resisted that.
Robert Preston
Time
Never
Suit
Guy
I have always had confidence in my own ability.
Robert Preston
Confidence
My Own
Own
Always
Isn't it odd that you have to keep proving you're alive?
Robert Preston
You
Alive
Keep
Odd
I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.
Robert Preston
Boy
Three
Things
Just
I played ball for the Hollywood Blues of the Pacific Coast League, and I thought I was going to be a major leaguer. But I was the only one who seemed to think so.
Robert Preston
Think
Thought
Blues
Only
In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.
Robert Preston
Marriage
I Am
Someone
Who
I always used to be the villain or the comic butt of some show.
Robert Preston
Villain
Butt
Always
Some
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