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"When you dominate other people's emotions, the time has to come when you will have to pay, and heavily, for that privilege."

"I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life."

"I had always loved John Ford's pictures. And I came to love him, too, but I was frightened to death working for him. He used the shock treatment while directing me."

"The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade."

"I want affection and tenderness desperately, but there's something in me that prevents me from handing it out."
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