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"The third umpires should be changed as often as nappies and for the same reason."

"I've been on sets where things weren't relaxed because someone was creating tension for no reason."

"If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist."

"For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print."

"Human reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way."

"The whole reason Sabrina came about was because we wanted something good for families to watch on TV."

"Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined."

"Sometimes I like them artificial and sometimes I like them real. And the reason is because sometimes I like a real close sound. And I like a very specific snare sound and I can't get that in the big room."

"That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done."
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"Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word."

"I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself."

"I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman."

"I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act."

"We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings."

"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself."

"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture."
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