“You know, I've always figured the waiting is what I get paid for. The acting I do free.”

— Edward G. Robinson

Source: On the set of Soylent Green (1973), in response to a fellow cast member's complaints; as quoted in In the Arena : An Autobiography (1995) by Charlton Heston, p. 477 https://archive.org/details/inarenaautobiogr0000hest_l8c1/page/476/mode/2up

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Romanian American actor 1893–1973

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