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"I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract."

"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"

"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."

"Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world."

"I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films."
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"It's the first film that I made where the director was not present under the camera, and it threw me."

"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."

"No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better."

"In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?"

"I hate biographies which say, I was called to such and such an office, and he offered me so and so, and I got so and so money. I find that very tedious. The best biographies are written by other people."

"Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls."
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