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"I was 23, and that was my first professional job. Anybody who has curly hair knows you don't want it to be brushed out because it becomes a never-ending tangle."
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"Judy Garland's father was gay. That seems to be the consensus. They left Minnesota and went to California because he got caught with some boy backstage."

"Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her."

"It's not a country of articulate people, sophisticated people. There's too little subtlety. Men and women don't enjoy each other very much in Australia. I don't find very many men sexy in Australia. Of course, I'm married and out of it, but still."

"This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem."

"I think male roles are generally much better written. So for actresses, we're always dealing with trying to inject a role with more truth than the writer possibly had in mind."

"When I first started acting, and we would all sit down and talk about Shakespeare and how great it was. I thought well, I suppose it is."

"My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote."

"Most women seem to be required to pit themselves against men in dramatic situations, and the men got to pit themselves against ideas or God."
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""Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles."

"I learned to speak first, and then to sign. I have never really known what it was like to hear, so I can't compare hearing aids to normal hearing."

"First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out."

"My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood."

"But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it, when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place."
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