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“After all, didn't I blow a magnificent career?” — Dick York

“All my teeth rotted and broke off. We ate a hell of a lot of potatoes and noodles. I got to 306 pounds. I went out for every job they sent me on. I auditioned to direct a school play for $600 but I wasn't good enough.” — Dick York

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“Anyone who would let Gary Cooper and the entire cast go charging on horseback without first finding out what kind of footing the horses had is nuts and cannot possibly direct a motion picture.” — Dick York

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“At that age, you believe you are bullet-proof and that nothing's ever going to hurt you.” — Dick York

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“Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.” — Dick York

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“Fortunately, I was supposed to look confused and disoriented because, God, I felt that way.” — Dick York

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“I can tell you how they got Karloff's face to deteriorate. The makeup man took Bromo-Seltzer, ground it up real fine and put it on his face with the facial make-up. They they sprayed him with water and it went pop, pop, pop, and his face just kind of deteriorated.” — Dick York

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“I cleaned apartments and the boys helped out by selling newspapers and collecting tin cans. And they got jobs as waiters and busboys and I had unemployment.” — Dick York

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“I did Fantasy Island and the next job was on Simon and Simon. I had to join AFTRA which cost me $900. Carson gave me $1,000 for a half day of work. By the time I paid the union and my agent, the check came to $3.50.” — Dick York

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“I didn't get any more calls and that went on for a year. I started teaching acting in Hollywood. That kept me in money.” — Dick York

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“I had done my first picture and I didn't have anything to do for awhile. I was asked to come back to New York and do Bus Stop in the role of the cowboy opposite Kim Stanley.” — Dick York

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“I had to let hurt what did hurt. I realized that if I walked straight it was going to hurt in a certain area, but if I compensated for it, it was going to make other things go out. So, when it became unbearable, I could get novocaine and cortisone shot into my back.” — Dick York

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“I kept having chills. This was in the middle of the summer and I was wearing a sheepskin jacket and I was chilling. I was shaking all over.” — Dick York

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“I lay in my dressing room after being in make-up waiting to go on. They knew I was feeling pretty rotten and they tried to give me time to rest. But I couldn't sleep. I couldn't do anything.” — Dick York

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“I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.” — Dick York

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“I never met nor saw Hitchcock.” — Dick York

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“I took pain pills to get to sleep because I didn't want to go to work the next day exhausted.” — Dick York

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“I walked into the office to read for Bewitched and Liz was sitting there. She unfolded those gorgeous legs and looked at me. I saw her in person for the first time. She had full lips and dark soft hair. She was sex all over.” — Dick York

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“I was seeing everything through pain. I would roll out of bed and do my exercises. I had to do that to work out the remainder of the pain pills. I would drink coffee and go to the set and plunge myself so far into my work.” — Dick York

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“I went on a diet. I borrowed money to get my teeth fixed. It took a year and I brought myself down to l60 pounds. Then I got an agent and within two weeks I got a job and the following week I got another job. That's unheard of.” — Dick York

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“I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.” — Dick York

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“I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit.” — Dick York

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“I'm trying to go over my lines. I woke up on the floor, somebody had me in their arms. I didn't quite know who, people looked so unfamiliar. That's about all I remember.” — Dick York

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“I've been blessed. I have no complaints. I've been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things.” — Dick York

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“My back flared up about 25 shows into the Going My Way season. Terrible spell, and all the shots and therapy didn't seem to work. Operations were recommended, all the way from fusion to removal of several vertebrae.” — Dick York

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“My spine healed incorrectly. There were long periods when I'd be perfectly all right, and then there were many other times when I wasn't, when my back would give out and throw me down to the floor amid waves of nauseating pain.” — Dick York

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“Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn't doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall.” — Dick York

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“Radio allowed people to act with their hearts and minds.” — Dick York

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“Some of the film people didn't know what the hell their line said! It drove me nuts to hear all those misreadings.” — Dick York

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“There was a three hour differential in performances because the sponsor insisted it be done live for California. You would go on at 8 pm in New York but you would also have to go on at 8 p.m. in California. That meant coming back in to do the show at 11 p.m.” — Dick York

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“We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building.” — Dick York

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“Westerns ain't a lot of fun when you've got 3,000 head of Mexican cattle that spook everytime a mouse farts. We chased those suckers for miles and miles. We finally got to the stampede scene and these damn cattle were so tired that they had to set up dynamite charges to get them to run.” — Dick York

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“When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.” — Dick York

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“You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.” — Dick York

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“You've got to keep trying.” — Dick York

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