I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of i… — Barry Levinson

I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.

Barry LevinsonDirector · American · b. 1922

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In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor. — Henry Miller
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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