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I promised to marry just about every girl I took out

Since none of us had any money, we had to use our wits. We had to get girls to give us their apartment, come in and cook for us, bring food over. We found that trying to get along with actresses who are broke too is no good. We had to go out and find people who weren’t actresses – airline hostesses…

—p.20 Cassavetes on Cassavetes Beginnings (1929–56) (1) by John Cassavetes
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you have to fight the put-downs in yourself

Nothing changes from where you are right now. Nothing will ever change except your own attitudes. Nothing. You’ll be put down. And you’ll get better. And you’re stupid, just stupid, if you get put down and you don’t find some way to fight that put-down. The main thing of being an actor or an actres…

—p.18 Beginnings (1929–56) (1) by John Cassavetes
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they were their characters

Another difference between the methods of Cassavetes and Strasberg was that Cassavetes studiously shunned group discussions of character. Actors developed their characters separately and even kept secrets from each other about what their character felt, wanted or knew. If two actors discussed their…

—p.65 Shadows and Johnny Staccato (1957–9) (48) by Ray Carney
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they were their characters

Another difference between the methods of Cassavetes and Strasberg was that Cassavetes studiously shunned group discussions of character. Actors developed their characters separately and even kept secrets from each other about what their character felt, wanted or knew. If two actors discussed their…

—p.65 Shadows and Johnny Staccato (1957–9) (48) by Ray Carney
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the history of independent American film

Both the conception and the style of Shadows were indebted to the neorealists. The young actor went to the Thalia frequently in the fifties and was deeply affected by the work of Visconti, de Sica and Rossellini, which was just making its way to the United States at that point. Cassavetes was also …

—p.60 Shadows and Johnny Staccato (1957–9) (48) by Ray Carney