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 If I were just a bit taller and I was a little more handsome or something like that, I could have played all the roles that I have played, and played many more. There is such a thing as a handicap, but you`ve got to be that much better as an actor. It kept me from certain roles that I might have had, but then, it kept others from playing my roles, so I don`t know that it`s not altogether balanced. I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me.
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Acting and painting have much in common. You begin with the external appearance and then strip away the layers to get to the essential core. This is reality and that is how an artist achieves truth. When you are acting, you are playing a part, you are being somebody else. You are also, at the same time, being yourself.
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To my mind, the actor has this great responsibility of playing another human being . . . it`s like taking on another person`s life and you have to do it as sincerely and honestly as you can.
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Paintings never really belong to one of us. If we are fortunate, as I have been, we are allowed at most a lovely time of custody.
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To last you need to be real.
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To be entrusted with a character was always a big responsibility to me.
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[on Double Indemnity (1944)] It was, in fact, the third lead. I debated accepting it. Emanuel Goldberg told me that at my age it was time to begin thinking of character roles, to slide into middle and old age with the same grace as that marvelous actor Lewis Stone . . . The decision made itself . . It remains one of my favorites.
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Some people have youth, some have beauty - I have menace.
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The sitting around on the set is awful. But I always figure that`s what they pay me for. The acting I do for free.
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[on Humphrey Bogart] I always felt sorry for him -- sorry that he had imposed upon himself the character with which he had become identified.
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Ah yes, I remember well what it was like to be a true collector, that soft explosion in the heart, that thundering inner "Yes!" when you see something you must have or die. For over 30 years I made periodic visits to Renoir`s "Luncheon of the Boating Party" in a Washington museum, and stood before that magnificent masterpiece hour after hour, day after day, plotting ways to steal it.
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I remember just before going onto the soundstage, I`d look in my dressing room mirror and stretch myself to my full 5`5" or 5`6" - whatever it was - to make me appear taller and to make me able to dominate all the others and to mow them down with my size.
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Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn`t play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me. My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector`s zeal. And then came cigarette cards, big-league baseball players. I was an insatiable fiend, and would cheerfully trade you three Indian Joes for one of that upstart newcomer, Ty Cobb.
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Trivia
Incredibly, never even nominated for an Academy Award. He was awarded a special "Lifetime Achievement" Oscar two months after his death. His wife, who accepted for him, commented on how thrilled he was to learn he would be given the award.
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Died two weeks after he had finished filming Soylent Green (1973).
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Pictured on a 33˘ USA commemorative postage stamp in the Legends of Hollywood series, issued 24 October 2000.
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Was originally slated to play Dr. Zaius in Planet of the Apes (1968) but dropped out due to heart problems.
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When he died in 1973, he left an estate valued at $2,500,000 which largely consisted of rare works of art.
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Interred at Beth El Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, USA, in the Goodman Mausoleum.
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Lived in a Yiddish community in Romania until he was 9.
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Although best known for playing fierce, shady little men, Robinson was well liked by almost everyone off-screen, having been a sensitive, quiet, artistic type when not performing.
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Donated $100,000 to the United Service Organization (USO) during WW2. Like many celebrities, Robinson also pitched in at the Hollywood Canteen and, being multilingual (he reportedly spoke seven languages fluently), worked on broadcasts to countries occupied by the Nazis.
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Was named #24 greatest actor on The 50 Greatest Screen Legends by the American Film Institute
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Was nominated for Broadway's 1956 Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic) for "Middle of the Night."
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Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1953.
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Born at 5:00 a.m. LMT.
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Father of Edward G. Robinson Jr..
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Portrayed Steve Wilson, crusading editor of The Illustrated Press, on CBS Radio's "Big Town" (1937-1943).
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According to the March 31, 1941, issue of "Time" magazine, he and Melvyn Douglas bid $3,200 for the fedora hat that Franklin Delano Roosevelt had worn during his three successful campaigns for the presidency. They acquired the hat at a special Hollywood auction to benefit the Motion Picture Relief Fund. Both Robinson and Douglas were identified as "loyal Democrats". Robinson would later be "grey-listed" during the McCarthy Red Scare hysteria of the 1950s and have to make his living on stage.
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Spoke seven other languages besides English, including Yiddish, Romanian and German.
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Son, Emmanuel (Manny) (b. 1933).
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The inspiration for the voice of Chief Clancy Wiggum (Hank Azaria) on "The Simpsons" (1989).
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