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"My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one."

"I find celebrity status difficult to bear when I am in the company of my mother."

"I started hustling at 12, my mother hustled ahead of me. I was only allowed to because they knew me."

"A boy is not free to find a partner of his own as long as he must be the partner to his mother."

"My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee."
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"This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me."


"Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater."


"They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!"


"My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater."


"I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead."


"So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals."
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