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"I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular."
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"I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird."

"It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last."

"What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right."

"I often talked to Bing Crosby, and while I liked him, I never understood why he was so popular. To me his voice was just a gimmick."

"I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different."

"All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach."

"Until a few years ago, the topics in my Ph.D. were unfashionable, but they are very popular today."

"It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime."
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"I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject."


"I enjoy listening to opera at home, occasionally, but I would much rather see it than just listen to it."


"Good directors say, Here's where the play is. They stand by the heart of the matter. Some of them stand beside it."


"I came to New York in 1962 and it began to look like I might he able to make a living in 1972."


"I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft."
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