:24:02
He'd limber up his shoulders
and shake his fingers...
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and I'd look at him in awe.
:24:09
Finally one day, I thought, I've got
to find out what all of that is about.
:24:14
I went up and I said, "Jimmy?
:24:17
"Will you answer a question for me?"
:24:19
And he said, "Sure. What is it?"
:24:21
I said, "Why do you do all of this...
:24:23
"bend over and limber up your shoulders
or whatever you're doing?"
:24:27
He said, "To get in the mood."
:24:30
I said, "To get in the mood for what?"
:24:32
He said, "For what I'm supposed to do."
:24:34
I said, "Oh."
:24:36
He said, "You never do anything."
:24:38
I said, "Oh, you've noticed that.
:24:41
"I've never seen anything
like what you've done ever before.
:24:44
"Is this part of Method acting? I'm sorry.
:24:48
"I've never had any acting lessons
in my life.
:24:50
"I just do what my heart tells me.
:24:53
"I don't know any other way to do it.
:24:55
"I try to think about what character
I'm supposed to be...
:24:59
"and what that person would think of,
in the characterization...
:25:02
"and try my best to do it."
:25:05
And he said, "That's a good idea."
:25:10
Jimmy was just finding his own as a star.
:25:14
I think he had a little bit of a complex.
:25:17
He kind of made fun
of Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson...
:25:21
because they didn't come
from the Actor's Studio.
:25:25
They weren't, in his opinion,
the great white hope of Broadway...
:25:29
or anything that he might have been.
:25:33
There was some jealousy there.
:25:36
I think, although he was treated
equally in every way...
:25:40
I think he was always too concerned...
:25:43
about whether he was being given
equal treatment...
:25:47
to everybody else, and yet...
:25:49
I found with George
that he was just as kind...
:25:54
to the smallest parts.
:25:56
Wonderful small parts like Sal Mineo...
:25:59
who was an adorable, wonderful actor...