Robert Mitchum
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"Robert Charles Durman Mitchum" was an American film actor, author, composer and singer. He is rated #23 on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars/list of the 50 greatest American screen legends of all time (25 greatest males/25 greatest females). Mitchum rose to prominence for his starring roles in several major works of the film noir style, and is considered a forerunner of the anti-heroes prevalent in film during the 1950s and 1960s. He may be best-remembered for his roles in such films as

The Story of G.I. Joe (1945), Crossfire (film)/Crossfire (1947), Out of the Past (1947), The Night of the Hunter (film)/The Night of the Hunter (1955), and Cape Fear (1962 film)/Cape Fear (1962).

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I kept the same suit for six years and the same dialogue. They just changed the title of the picture and the leading lady.

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Shelley, arguing with you is like trying to hold a conversation with a swarm of bumblebees.

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Every two or three years I knock off for a while. That way I'm constantly the new girl in the whorehouse.

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Movies bore me, especially my own.

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This is not a tough job. You read a script. If you like the part and the money is O.K., you do it. Then you remember your lines. You show up on time. You do what the director tells you to do. When you finish, you rest and then go on to the next part. That's it.

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There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

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Maybe love is like luck. You have to go all the way to find it.

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People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

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I never take any notice of reviews-unless a critic has thought up some new way of describing me. That old one about my lizard eyes and anteater nose and the way I sleep my way through pictures is so hackneyed now.

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