Acting

"He often said in moments of infuriation, or even exasperated amusement at his predicament, that acting was a silly, futile, bogus sort of job and actors no more than clever performing seals, or, at worst, mere puppets jerked into life at another's bidding. In a more serious moment he would say they were too often at the mercy of unscrupulous, completely inartistic people who were simply in the business for the money—and it was they, the actors, who had to stand up and be counted when bad plays, put on by inept managements, got a critical pasting." In Search of My Father, pg. 38


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