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"I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972."
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"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly."

"Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift."

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"If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like."

"I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it."

"If you're going to be born ugly and be an actor - the least they can do is let you play Lincoln."

"I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft."

"I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject."

"I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest."

"Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it."

"I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972."
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