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"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."
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"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre."
Chance

"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."
Shakespeare

"I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in."
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"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."
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"I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most."
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"I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't."
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"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."
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"We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary."
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"Working with Brando was fun. It was like a tennis match. We played unbelievably well together."
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"Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country."
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"Self-censorship is more efficient than any police. You write and say not what you really think, but what you believe is acceptable. By that process we lose those revolutionary ideas that could change society for the better."
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"Let me be clear: I am not an advocate of censorship."
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"We have reached a censorship barrier in Infidelity, to our infinite disappointment. It won't be Joan's [Joan Crawford's] next picture and we are setting it aside awhile till we can think of a way of halfwitting halfwit Hayes and his legion of decency. Pictures needed cleaning up in 1932-33...but because they were suggestive and salacious. Of course the moralists now want to apply that to all strong themes-so the crop of the last two years is feeble and false, unless it deals with children."
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"By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech."
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"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."
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"Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate."
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"The ultimate censorship is the flick of the dial."
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"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
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"I had my first amendment rights removed by a USA judge for a video that I recorded in the public sidewalk. The right to free speech and freedom of the press only partially exists in the USA."
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"Censorship is the height of vanity."
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