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"Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me."
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"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."
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"Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother."
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"Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother."
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"A child born to a Black mother in a state like Mississippi... has exactly the same rights as a white baby born to the wealthiest person in the United States. It's not true, but I challenge anyone to say it is not a goal worth working for."
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"When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent."
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"What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin."
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"My mother-in-law was with me during all four of my births and when she was sitting next to me holding my hand during the cesareans, well, I craved that."
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"My mother taught me to read."
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"I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course."
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"So, babies are taken from their mothers because they get temporarily insane and it's not the mother's fault. This is the thing: they shouldn't feel ashamed. They didn't cause this. It is not something they did to themselves."
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"In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing."
Animation
"Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective."
Awards
"Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor."
Humor
"I have a lot of faith in people."
Faith
"Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me."
Mother
"If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare."
Work
"I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife."
Father
"What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy."
Comedy
"I gave up shame a long time ago."
Time
"Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music."
Music
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