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"In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be."

"A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington."

"This outfit called Los Angeles Theatre Works does readings of plays."

"I used to stand outside the theater knowing the truant officer was looking for me. I would stand there 'til someone came along and then ask them to buy my ticket."

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

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

"I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence."

"Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked."
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"We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare."


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


"We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary."


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


"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."
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