A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.
I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor - I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act.
I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.
I'm about as Chinese as Herbert Hoover.
I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.
Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.
Muni is buried in the Hollywood Memorial Cemetary in Hollywood, CA.
Muni himself considered Robert Donat to be the best actor in Hollywood.
Muni was the first actor to win an Oscar for portraying a real life person (Louis Pasteur).
Muni suffered from a rheumatic heart condition his entire life.
Muni was 5 feet, 10 inches tall and weighed 165 lbs.
Muni retired from acting in 1959 after completing The Last Angry Man.
Muni has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6435 Hollywood Boulevard.
Muni's final Academy Award nomination came in 1959 for The Last Angry Man.
Muni played a Chinese peasant in 1937's The Good Earth.
Muni received a third Academy Award Best Actor nomination in 1937 for The Life of Emile Zola. He didn't win but co-star Joseph Schildkraut won for Best Supporting Actor.
The 1932 gangster film Scarface made Muni a star playing a character based on Al Capone. When Scarface was remade in 1982 Al Pacino played Muni's role.
Muni's first Broadway role in the play, We Americans, was also the first time he acted in an English speaking production.
Muni made his stage debut at age 12 playing an 80 year old man.
Muni's family emigrated to the United States in 1902.
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