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"I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is."
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"The fact differentiates the fake."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
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"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."
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"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
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"My truth could be very different than your truth."
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"Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more."
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"It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."
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"I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots."
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"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."
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"There is no failure in life. It is only an experience."
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"For TV I don't think I could have gotten a better part than Uncle Junior because of the intimacy of the character based on David Chase's brilliant writing."
Character
"I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore."
Play
"I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is."
Truth
"The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language."
Comedy
"The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic."
Anger
"I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them."
Mother
"I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children."
Children
"I've always wanted to play Don Quixote in some way. It's a great role. I think the idealism of the man shows that hope that we have in the human breast to achieve something."
Hope
"Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this."
Life
"I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy."
Funny
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