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• When people think it’s successful, I’m grateful. When they don’t – OK, I’ll try again.

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• When I said I no longer wanted to be a painter, that I wanted to be an actor, the first thing I did was get a stinking job in an insurance building.

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• To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

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• To a large degree, those early lean days were self-imposed.

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• The most important thing in my life is my work.

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• The fact that I’m going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I’m going to be successful at others.

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• So I went and did an audition and became the biggest radio actor in Sydney, and that’s how it all started.

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• In the beginning I had a real work problem. Every time I had job I had to convince the immigration authorities I was the only man for that job and get a special work permit until I went under contract to MGM.

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• I’m not doing my work for constant success.

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• I’d much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

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• I wouldn’t dream of selling my work. I give them to friends, to charities.

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• I worked at Mark Foy’s during the day and studied drama at night.

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• I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter… were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.

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• I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock’s 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

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• I pray and try every day to be a better actor.

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• I married at a tender age during my early stage and radio struggles.

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• I did well as an actor in Australia, and then Paramount invited me over… to have a look at me.

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• I am proud to be an actor.

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• Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.

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• But I did a lot of boxing and I was captain of an Australian surf club.

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Rodney Sturt Taylor (26)

Birth:	11th January, 1930
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Actor

About

Taylor was born on 11 January 1930 in Lidcombe, a suburb of Sydney, the only child of William Sturt Taylor, a steel construction contractor and commercial artist, and the former Mona Thompson, a writer of more than a hundred short stories and children's books. His middle name comes from his great-great grand uncle, Captain Charles Sturt, a British explorer of the Australian Outback in the 19th century.

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