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"I come from a TV background, so for me this more like doing a freeing theatre piece because we'd go into a room and do the scene, instead of doing it as a wide shot, medium shot, and close up with only the odd line of dialogue."

"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."

"Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer."

"I don't like sitting around in my dressing room very much. It feels a lot like theater."

"I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater."

"We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally."
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"I started in London, as a kid. My mother knew I had sort of an inbred talent. She was an actress, so I inherited it from her. But I think I got a lot of it from my grandfather, who was a great politician."

"I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!"

"I've worked with the greatest actors, and they're all gone. This is what's so desperate to me."

"Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours."

"Clint Eastwood is an extraordinary director because he knows the value of a buck. He knows where it will show on the screen."
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