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

"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."

"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."

"Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."

"Pontius Pilate was the first great censor and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship."

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

"We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation."
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"I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."
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