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"Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent."

"It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous."

"It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do."

"I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London."

"If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine."

"I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree."

"I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less."
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"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 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."


"Once in awhile, there's stuff that makes me say, That's what theatre's about. It has to be a human event on the stage, and that doesn't happen very often."


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