"Yeah, I'm unique—like an actor who has only one eye in the middle of his forehead. Or the Elephant Man. I've got a patent on the type. To be an actor is to be a moveable freak. Once you have been up there on that giant screen, everybody knows you—and you know no one. It counts as a source of embarrassment."
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As quoted in "Roberto Mitchum: After all these years, still one of a kind"
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Robert Mitchum
1917 – 1997
US-amerikanischer Schauspieler
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