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"I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really."
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"The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own."
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"It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words."
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"While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance."
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"You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do."
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"The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime."
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"I left her in the forest of Arden, I shall find her in an orchard in Verona."
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"Romance is everything."
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"If I call him back here," Cooper whispered in her ear, "will you crawl up my body again?"
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"They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake."
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"For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if that person thinks I'm making the wrong decision, he'll tell me. I want him to be honest, because being that honest takes a lot of guts."
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"So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class."
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"I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors."
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"In the wintertime, in the snow country, citrus fruit was so rare, and if you got one, it was better than ambrosia."
Country
"No one asked me to be an actor, so no one owed me. There was no entitlement."
Actor
"Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy."
Acting
"So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school."
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"You don't build a bond without being present."
Being
"I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing."
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"Even during the rationing period, during World War II, we didn't have the anxiety that we'd starve, because we grew our own potatoes, you know? And our own hogs, and our own cows and stuff, you know."
War
"You sang in church, you know, and you didn't act at all. You tried not to act, you tried to tell the truth. The idea of being a troubadour on the road singing for your supper was very disturbing to him."
Truth
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