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"I was utilized because I have a certain face that works well in cinema, and I'm used to making myself look as good as possible."
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"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
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"Nevertheless, in the theatre, and in the cinema, the contemporary reality of Poland has been represented only to a minuscule degree in the last 12 years."
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"The King and Queen made the rounds after the film. We were told how we were to respond, and we were in a semi circle in the lounge area of the cinema, they came around after the King, the Queen and both Princesses."
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"Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs."
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"I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this."
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"National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we're on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word "industry" is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense."
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"It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke."
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"I feel very proud that we have managed to stay together. In these forty years we have made forty-six films. Each one has brought a certain name and contribution to cinema."
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"I did not make this a long film for its own sake. I wanted to make an entertaining film and offer it out there for those who want to see it. If word of mouth suggests there is an audience out there, hopefully their cinema will show it."
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"An actor is just a part of a movie, but director - he is the movie."
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"I'd never been content in America."
America

"I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible."
Life

"Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in."
Happiness

"Altman works in such an interesting way, letting things occur in the film even if he didn't particularly plan them."
Film

"I did things like Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait. I don't know what those films were about. The women I played in them were not very empowered."
Woman

"I'm not in the advertising business, but I think it would be very nice if people went to see the film Hamlet, because it was made with love and integrity."
Love

"My family said that I wanted to act even when I was a child living on a tea plantation in the jungle in India."
Family

"Early on, I found the attention completely embarrassing. I'd cringe if I saw my picture on the cover of a magazine."
Attention

"I've never quite understood why people marry; marriage is just an invented structure."
Marriage

"Children can only take so much, and they deal with it however they can."
Children
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