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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."
Love
"Lead the audience by the nose to the thought."
Thought
"I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act."
God
"When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part."
Character
"I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy of the Domesday Book."
Actor
"I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it."
Eye
"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."
Work
"Have a very good reason for everything you do."
Reason
"Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it."
Instinct
"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult."
Acting
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"Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us."
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"He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none."
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"I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera."
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"Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others."
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"The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic."
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"You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you."
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"The master's eye is the best fertilizer."
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"Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed."
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"It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that."
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"This dame keeps dragging me into the bushes. Keep your eye open, you may have to rescue me."
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