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He was always bigger than the other kids.
"I was always bigger and stronger and faster than the other boys my age," he said.
My agency has never told me to lose weight, though I was always bigger than the other girls.
Like any real star, his greatest role was always himself; no matter how extreme or how contained his performance, he was always bigger than any role he took.
As a teacher at Boston University in the 1950s, at New York University in the 1960s and 1970s, as a private instructor and in tandem with the vocal coach Kristin Linklater, now the chairwoman of Columbia University's graduate theater program, he became known for his belief that the actor was always bigger and more important than the character he played.
Apart from the implied slap in the face to those Ocean's 11 films, for which he surely received close to $15m, his ungracious remark ignores some basic tenets of Old Hollywood: that the true star was always bigger than the picture; that, no matter how trite the plot, audiences went to see the star anyway, and that's what made him/her worth $15m to the studios.
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