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"We all desperately need brilliant sales professionals far more than ever before " to help us, guide us, keep us informed and stop us from making diabolically stupid buying decisions."

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work."

"Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession " think of earningfor life too."

"Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice."

"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing."
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"I mark a script like an exam, and I try not to do anything under 50 per cent. Similarly with the part. And also film is a peculiar thing, parts don't necessarily read in script form anything like as well as they can do when it comes to materialising."

"Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting."

"Also the wonderful thing about film, you can see light at the end of the tunnel. You did realise that it is going to come to an end at some stage."

"I am not an enormous believer in research being the be-all and end-all. I get suspicious when I read about actors spending six months in a clinic, say, in order to play someone who is sick."

"Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course."

"If I'm in theatre, cinema doesn't even cross my mind. Similarly when I'm making a film, theatre doesn't cross my mind."

"I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit."

"I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word."

"If you do an interview in 1960, something it's bound to change by the year 2000. And if it doesn't, then there's something drastically wrong."

"My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her."
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