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"I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them."
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"A mother is the most important blessing of your life."
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"When I saw Virginia Woolf, somewhere between the first and second acts, someone I had known as my mother became somebody else."
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"My mother and father were fantastic, very active. I find it difficult to say this, but I'm quite a loving person and I've always been loving to my friends. In the long run, that pays off. I'm very interested in other people, and if you are, they're interested in you."
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"The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart."
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"But my mother loved The Elephant Man, and my father gave David Lynch a scholarship to study in Rome."
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"A mother's love is more beautiful than any fresh flower."
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"My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair?"
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"I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother."
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"Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich?"
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"I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible."
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"The radio was my big influence. Comedy came from the instinctual feel I had for language."
Comedy
"I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children."
Children
"I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23."
Family
"I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them."
Mother
"I went on tour in the play H.M.S. Pinafore."
Play
"The anger that Uncle Junior has comes from my background. My father was the son of an Italian immigrant, and I've seen the fire of the Italian temperament. It can be explosive sometimes in ways that are both funny and tragic."
Anger
"I think Pirandello had something to say to people about what truth really is."
Truth
"When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing."
Old
"My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful to watch. But then again, he was a Gemini. I believe in that stuff."
Father
"Uncle Junior is a criminal, which makes him a villain, so it makes people want to watch him. My whole life as an actor has been preparing for something like this."
Life
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