{"id":58608,"date":"2012-09-28T06:42:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T10:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=58608"},"modified":"2012-09-28T06:43:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T10:43:14","slug":"how-bad-could-i-be-what-would-i-do-what-could-i-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=58608","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;How Bad Could I Be? What Would I Do? What Could I Do?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?attachment_id=58609\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58609\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/6125999_5_l.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"6125999_5_l\" width=\"505\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-58609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/6125999_5_l.jpg 505w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/6125999_5_l-84x100.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/6125999_5_l-168x200.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/6125999_5_l-336x400.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lee Marvin on playing the diabolically violent Liberty Valance in John Ford&#8217;s masterpiece (one of them, anyway), <i>The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It was fun for me to play that dangerous guy. It was a dangerous kind of a character. One of the bad facets of yourself that you blow up. Well, that&#8217;s intellectual. I don&#8217;t hang out there too much, you know. But still: how bad could I be? What would I do? What could I do? So I think one of the fun things of acting is to put on the bad rags, and get paid for it too, and not kill anybody.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Marvin on playing the diabolically violent Liberty Valance in John Ford&#8217;s masterpiece (one of them, anyway), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: &#8220;It was fun for me to play that dangerous guy. It was a dangerous kind of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=58608\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[274,2128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58611,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58608\/revisions\/58611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}