I think that most actors, and they’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
I think that most actors, and they’re a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to keep in touch with the child.
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn’t fully appreciate. But I’m now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
My mother had been a country and western singer but when she moved out to Hollywood found it very difficult to get work so when I was born they put me into dance classes and singing classes as soon as I could walk actually.
I think that all of us either lose touch with the child inside us or try and hold onto it because it so precious to us and it’s such an extraordinary part of our lives.
We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.
I don’t blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.
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