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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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"Censoring books that deal with difficult, adolescent issues does not protect anybody. Quite the opposite. It leaves kids in the darkness and makes them vulnerable. Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance. Our children cannot afford to have the truth of the world withheld from them."
"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."
"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."
"Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself."
"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
"The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance."
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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."
"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."
"If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession."
"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."
"I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't."
"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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