An Actor's Comments on Acting: NOT REQUIRED

An Actor's Comments on Acting

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On the star's image:

    "When you see Jack Lemmon at the beginning of a picture walking down the halls of a big office building," he said, "you immediately believe him as a junior executive of a corporation. When you see me on horseback in chain mail, they seem to believe that I belong there."

On being the part:

    When Heston was filming the Moses epic The Ten Commandments, he commented on the restrictions ordered by the director, Cecil B. DeMille:

    "When I'm on the set in my costume and makeup, I cannot sit down, read a newspaper, use a telephone or give interviews. De Mille has twofold purposes: 1. to make others on the set get the illusion I am Moses; and 2. to make me feel like Moses."

On researching the part:

    Heston said that he did a great deal of research on every historical figure he portrayed.

    "The responsibility is a great one," he observed. "After all, Moses figures in three of the world's great religions. You have to be prepared to answer questions of all of them concerning the interpretation of Moses' life."

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