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"I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972."

"If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like."

"I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it."

"There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking."

"I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest."

"I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject."
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"You know, whatever happens between the two of us that's created when we come together as actors is not something I think we can explain."

"I was a writer. I just wasn't a very good one. I was lucky enough to have a playwriting teacher who told me that I'd be a better actor than I would a playwright."

"I'm not like one of those actors who's a frustrated director."

"I've always tried to kind of stretch my wings as an actor and do things that are different."
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