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"I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known."
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"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."
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"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."
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"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
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"The trick is to have my own particular taste and feel for the theater to audiences who have been used to one particular style and taste for nearly 40 years."
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"I grew up wanting to be a writer for theatre."
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"Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it."
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"Many of the Universities have very good Theatre Departments these days."
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"If I wasn't in the theater, I would be a hermit."
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"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."
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"I'm looking for one of two things and sometimes they dovetail: I'm looking to go into a theatre and see a certain kind of show. And if it's not there, I'd like to do it myself so it would be there."
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"I reluctantly left the series because a) my age. I'm 68 tomorrow and time is very precious for me to spend time at home with my family and especially with the grandchildren. They're aged 7 and 5. After three years I became homesick for my home."
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"I was 20, I was an amateur from 14 but my first professional role was at 22."
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"I knew absolutely nothing about acting, and had to be taught everything. Some people are born naturals and know how to walk, talk and hold themselves. I didn't and had to learn everything."
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"We need more theatres, more art and more culture in this country."
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"I have been in the series for over 3 years - 3 series. There will be a fourth series next year which of course I won't be in because I'm now dead. So in total I appeared in 25 episodes."
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"I love the part of Hector as it takes me back to playing eccentric parts. He is a funny character, which is fine by me as I've been playing for laughs for decades now! It's lovely to get a laugh; it's the best thing in the world!"
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"I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known."
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