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Quotes by Robert Preston

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I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now you could say he was all right because he was able to jump, but you could also say he was not all right because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute.
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I know what you're thinking... and you oughtta be ashamed of yourself.
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All the media have their own award presentations.
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I always used to be the villain or the comic butt of some show.
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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.
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In marriage, someone has to be a giver and someone a taker. I am a taker who married a giver.
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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.
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I've done my best to avoid B pictures.
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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.
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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.
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