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"The audience that surprised us the most was definitely Paris, when we played there last. They were just incredibly into us and we weren't expecting it at all."

"But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris."

"If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris."

"Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness."

"Le Marais?''It's a little district in the centre of Paris. It is full of cobbled streets and teetering apartment blocks and gay men and orthodox Jews and women of a certain age who once looked like Brigitte Bardot. It's the only place to stay."

"If you come from Paris to Budapest you think you are in Moscow."
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"My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love."


"Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh."


"One is just an interpreter of what the playwright thinks, and therefore the greater the playwright, the more satisfying it is to act in the plays."


"My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American."


"Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else."


"English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously."


"Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants."


"You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me."
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