"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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"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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"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Censorship, Books, Morality, Art

"We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way."

Kathy Acker, American Activist

Censorship,

"I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other."

Kathy Acker, American Activist

Censorship, Country

"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."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

Censorship, Self, Police, Idea

"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."

Archibald MacLeish, American Poet

Censorship, Opinions, Silence

"I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort."

Don Johnson, American Actor

Censorship,

"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."

John Pilger, Australian Journalist

Censorship, Chance, Television

"Censorship is the height of vanity."

Martha Graham, American Dancer

Censorship, Vanity

"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."

Matthew Lesko, American Entertainer

Censorship, Libraries, Public

"I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Censorship, Writers

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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."

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"The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book."

"We get on the bandwagon in all sorts of ways - you know minor ways and major ways - like what you've just encountered which isn't censorship exactly, it was something sort of uglier in a way."

"I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other."

"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."

"Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered."

"I am seriously opposed to censorship of any sort."

"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."

"Censorship is the height of vanity."

"What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship."

"I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship."

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"Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education."

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"I love playing Chekhov. That's the hardest; that's why I love it most."

"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."

"Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often."

"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."

"If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession."

"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."