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"I am proud to be a role model for my viewers. I am finding out that helping victims is as or more rewarding the all the awards I wins."

"Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your focus gets splintered. Once you put one thing in your calendar, that month is gone."

"Awards are meaningless to me, and I have nothing but disdain for anyone who actively campaigns to get one."

"Just look at all the awards shows now. It has turned into a catwalk. You have to be wearing a certain designer, a certain dress, and everyone's critiquing."

"Oh yeah, I'm about to host the Genies, which are the Canadian Academy Awards."

"The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well."

"To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal."

"Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging."
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"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."


"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."


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


"They still had the Lord Chamberlain, so we had this idiotic censorship. We were allowed three Jesus Christs instead of 10. Why three were OK, I don't know."


"We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre."


"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."
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