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Roddy McDowall Quotes: I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an adult could only act as a child does with that insane, playing-at-toy- soldiers concentration!
         

I enjoyed being in movies when I was a boy. As a child you're not acting - you believe. Ah, if an adult could only act as a child does with that insane, playing-at-toy- soldiers concentration!


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They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.



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Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.

Fortunately, I happened to go east at a time when live television was centered in New York.



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