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"As I was coming up on the stage, there was one source that could make or break you, the New York Times. Inevitably there would be one actor singled out for a better review, or worse, than somebody else. The effect of that was cancerous, divisive."

"Then I got out of the service, and I was going to be a Shakespearean actor."

"You grow up in a Sicilian household, becoming an actor is not a big leap."

"I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor."

"I mean, you know, actors lives - you're forgotten. Look at Barrymore, and look at all the great actors. They're forgotten after awhile."
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"I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out."

"Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow."

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports."

"How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles."

"A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles."
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