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"Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me."
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"When choosing a profession, a person will have good incentive for personal development by choosing such a profession that represents a personal challenge."
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"Job tip: If you were the employer, what kind of person would you most desire as an employee? Be that person."
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"I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the moment the learning curve flattened, I was out of there."
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"I'd rather not look for a job... to let a fine one find me. And that definitely wouldn't define me as a snob!"
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"Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you."
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"When at work, be diligent because there are many people who wish they had your job, but they couldn't since you are the one who got."
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"I should never have been happy in any profession that did not call forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm contact with my neighbors. There is nothing like the medical profession for that: one can have the exclusive scientific life that touches the distance and befriend the old fogie in the parish too."
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"Right, well I am, I was a career diplomat for 37 years from 1960 until 1997 during the early 1980s from 1981 to 1985 I was the United States Ambassador to Honduras."
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"I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed."
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"I don't think I could have ever had a career as a pianist because I never ever wanted to play the notes the way they were written, I was too sloppy to learn them quite right."
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"It is really hard to do comedy; it takes a lot of energy and focus. It's rather like music: It's a lot of hitting notes precisely."
Comedy
"I'm a nice, happily married wife and mom and I live in Connecticut."
Mom
"Usually, it gets worse and worse as they downsize your character; mine just kept getting better."
Character
"Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity."
Intelligence
"Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me."
Career
"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."
Film
"Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother."
Mother
"I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as well."
People
"If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic."
Movies
"In the early '90s, New York was a pretty depressing place."
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