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"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."

"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."
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"Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life."

"To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy."

"I don't think of myself as a character actress - that's become a phrase which means you've had it."

"An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know."

"Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life."
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