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"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."

"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."

"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."

"Theatre can't be done again and again and again and again - it's organic."

"No, I knew when I was doing theater in New York that this was what I was supposed to be doing."

"Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days."

"I really loved Twin Peaks. When I saw the two-hour pilot, they screened it in the big theatre. I said, I don't know what is going to happen. I'm in this and I don't understand it. This is never going to sell. Who's going to watch this thing?"
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"People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap."

"My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American."

"My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love."

"Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants."
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