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"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."
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"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."

"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."

"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."

"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."

"Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days."

"I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?"

"Then I went off to Southern Methodist University in Dallas. They had a really wonderful theatre department."
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"Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th."

"To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have."

"I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride."

"I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them."
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