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"I see only defects because I'm not following the scene as it were. I'm not following the other person. It's like the best thing to clarify this is the theater."
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"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."

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

"I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it."

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

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

"I always go back to theatre. It's probably where I'll draw my last breath."
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"I want to live every moment totally and intensely. Even when I'm giving an interview or talking to people, that's all that I'm thinking about."

"I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal."

"This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really."

"I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself."

"I don't know what women are attracted to. I can't tell, but certainly I have no notion of having sex appeal or being seductive in any way."

"I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing."

"I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it."

"He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has."

"The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing."
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