Actorviews (1923)

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Mr. War field Declines a Million 163 tastes — apart from the theater — could do with that year’s money!” “I could buy some wonderful paintings,” he admitted. “I wouldn’t have to travel and live in hotels away from home, life, wife, everything that’s dear and decent. For that matter, I could now — without the movie million — stop acting and live in idle comfort — so long as I didn’t buy works of art. But here I am, working as hard as ever I worked, and in an old play, because I simply can’t let go. Can you answer that?” I couldn’t. “Let me try to answer it,” he said. “When I was an usher boy in San Francisco I went on the stage because I was stage-struck — and I was hissed out of my own town. But I was still stage-struck. And I guess I still am. Probably that’s the reason I’d rather be an actor than his photograph.”