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"All you're trying to do in an improvisation is get as much material as possible for the editing room."
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"Oh, who am I trying to kid? It's a madhouse. The minute those cameras go off, things just explode, everyone is just at each other in one way or another, in closets or cat fights here and there. It's nuts. You know, I can't be a part of it."
"While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong."
"You can say we're trying too hard or that we didn't try hard enough, but we're not trying at all; we're just doing what we do."
"Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them."
"We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be."
"They asked me why I was wearing heels, and I said, I'm trying to hide my ass. They gave me a prosthetic behind."
"Like with Berle, he was always trying to steal the scene, get a little extra."
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