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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground."

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."
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"I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't."

"The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered."

"I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was."

"It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows."

"If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare."

"Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective."

"In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing."
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