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Roddy McDowall Quotes: I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.
         

I started to study, because I knew I had to learn a lot about myself as an actor; you can't act the same as you did as a child.


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



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