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"Actually, my favourite roles have been in theatre, but on TV, my faves were Slap Maxwell and Larry Sanders."

"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces."

"I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts."

"I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York."

"All of a sudden Kevin told me that the movie got bought and was gonna be shown in a movie theatre. I was shocked. I was psyched. It was just weird."

"I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath."

"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."
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"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."


"If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession."


"I think, by and large, the level of acting is mediocre. When I go to the theatre, I get so angry. I don't go."


"I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't."


"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."
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