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"There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop."
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"Now that I've got some films under my belt, I have the courage of my convictions regarding acting. It gives me a leg to stand on."
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"When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll."
Mother

"I hope that doing truthful portrayals of people in a variety of circumstances gives people a kind of subterranean link to those characters."
People

"It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good life is, the world of supermodels and Bud ads."
Life

"I'm doing things that are more artistic again, more close to the material that I love. I don't disparage those things that I did. They're just not as much reflective of who I am."
Love

"Sometimes I feel limited by people's perceptions of what I can and cannot do, or what I do or don't look like."
People

"I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it."
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"My father taught me how to substitute realities."
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"I assume that if people get to know me, they'll like me. If they don't, it's not my problem."
People

"I was offered one of the roles in a big project that shall remain nameless. I thought the whole thing encouraged violent sex crimes toward women. It made horrible, ghastly rape violence seem sexy. I just didn't want to sign my name to it."
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"I find that here in the States, audiences are generally less knowledgeable, from the cognitive point of view, though they are emotionally more receptive."
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"For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds."
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"We have had to play some mighty tough audiences."
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"Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright."
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"With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle."
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"There was something about being in front of audiences when I was in elementary school plays that gave me a thrill. It was like the rush you get from a roller coaster drop."
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"Lenny Bruce is a very moral man trying to improve the world and trying to make audiences think."
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"So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences."
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"But you can't really know your audiences so well."
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"I have not wanted to intimidate audiences. I have not wanted my dancing to be an elitist form. That doesn't mean I haven't wanted it to be excellent."
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