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"It is not well to make great changes in old age."
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"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
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"Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
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"Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age."
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"To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it."
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"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
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"The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age."
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"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
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"Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
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"My portrayal of Fagin was all to do with my experience in comedy and revue."
Experience

"I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions."
Action

"My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business."
Business

"Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film."
Actor

"Working on a film, you don't get time to develop rivalries, but the theatre is like a little village, and the differences between me, Lionel and Georgia grew."
Time

"For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it."
Work

"Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle."
Film

"I'd wanted to be an actor from the age of five."
Age

"Now I can see I was at fault for not being more considerate, but when we were doing the show I didn't think it was my job to be considerate to other people."
People
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